The Greens are calling on New South Wales to follow Victoria’s lead and ban fracking.
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Greens plan to end all coal mining in NSW
The NSW Greens want to end all coal mining in the state and create a new economic model by focusing on renewable energy.
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Green groups accuse miners of dodgy offset packages
Biodiversity offsets used by mining companies to gain approval for major projects will be investigated in the first of three public hearings of a federal senate inquiry today.
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott calls mining and carbon taxes “anti West Australian”
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has labelled the mining and carbon taxes as “anti Western Australian “ as he tries to secure the resource vote ahead of the April 5 Senate election.
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Mining tax fails to bring in the big bucks, again
The mining tax has raised only $232 million this financial year, a huge deficit on the expected revenues of $4 billion originally forecast when the tax was introduced in 2011.
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Mining’s environmental offsets to get senate inquiry
Biodiversity offsets used by mining companies to gain approval for major projects will be investigated in a senate inquiry after The Greens secured support from Labour.
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Tassie’s Greens say they support mining, sometimes
The Tasmanian Greens party says it supports mining, depending on the project.
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High Court throws out mining tax challenge
Fortescue’s Andrew Forrest has lost his High Court challenge against the mining tax.
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Gas and oil sector launch ad blitz for better policies
The gas and oil industry have launched an advertising blitz and are calling on the public to sign a petition to lobby the government for better policies.
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Coal action group to conduct dust level tests
Community groups in the Hunter Valley will conduct their own testing of coal train dust after rejecting a recent report that stated coal trains did not have stronger associations with elevated particulates.
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Santos to be prosecuted for Pilliga pollution
The NSW government has decided to prosecute Santos for the spill of untreated water at its Pilliga drilling site in the north-west of the state.
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Remediation efforts continue at abandoned uranium mine
Queensland officials inspected the abandoned uranium mine at Mary Kathleen last week, as part of an ongoing assessment of the site’s remediation status.
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Greens lobby Future Fund to stop investing in coal
The Greens have started a campaign to lobby the Future Fund to stop investing in coal companies.
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Bumping up taxes won’t close mines: Greens
Lifting mining taxes won’t lead to mine closures, Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson claims.
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Green state backflips on mining
Tasmania reassesses mining and finds support in unexpected places. Alex Heber reports.
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Oil and gas exploration too close to Abrolhos Islands: Greens
The Federal Government’s release of potential gas and oil exploration sites has drawn criticism from green groups who say the area is too close to the Abrolhos Islands.
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Toro’s uranium mine will struggle financially: report
An economist has warned that Western Australia’s first proposed uranium mine may struggle to reach development.
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Mining tax forecasts slashed
Earnings for the Federal Government’s mining tax have again been revised down, with the latest figures predicting it will only raise $800 million.
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Senate inquiry into mining tax begins
Greens leader Christine Milne is urging the government to rework the mining tax as a senate inquiry into the tax begins.
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Greens urge unions to fight coal
Greens senator Richard Di Natale has declared union boss Paul Howes needs to acknowledge the health dangers of the coal industry poses in an effort to protect the public.
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