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ACF’s “Count Me In” event in Adelaide

June 21, 2017

Dave Sweeney from the ACF writes:

Clean energy is a hot topic in South Australia right now. And it should be because it’s critical we cut pollution from climate-wrecking fuels like coal and gas and shift to clean energy from the sun and wind. We all need a liveable planet, air we can breathe and water we can drink.

But a handful of big polluting companies and their political backers don’t like South Australia championing clean energy. They’re trying to keep us handcuffed to polluting fuels.

It’s up to us to stop them.

When: Wednesday June 28 from 6-8pm
Where: Adelaide Town Hall, 128 King William St, Adelaide 5000
Refreshments provided

Connect with like-minded people, hear stories from local legends and find out how you can get
involved in the Repower campaign to shift Australia to clean, renewable energy from the sun, wind
and waves.

I’ll also give you an update on our nuclear free campaign and let’s celebrate our recent
win stopping the global radioactive waste dump in the Flinders Ranges!

You’ll hear from:

– Suzanne Harter, ACF Climate Change and Clean Energy Campaigner
– Saskia Gerhardy, local legend from Willunga Environment Centre
– Katharine McBride and Kate Tolarno, ACF Murray Darling Fellows
– Dave Sweeney, ACF Nuclear Free Campaigner

There is nothing more powerful than people coming together to say, this is the world we want to
see. That’s how change happens. People like you and me, we step up, get involved and come
together to demand it.

RSVP NOW <https://www.acf.org.au/count_me_in_17_adelaide>

See you there!

Dave Sweeney
Nuclear Free Campaigner

Old_Notes

Survey complete

June 6, 2017

Thanks to those who filled out our survey; it is now closed.
Two interesting results:

(i) Most of you found the email newsletters somewhat to very useful




(ii) There a clear preference for us to focus on the anti-nuke and pro-renewables campaigns (20% also supported an anti-fracking campaign)

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Beware of nuke propaganda in environmentalist clothes!

June 6, 2017

FoE Australia’s anti-nukes campaigner, Jim Green, notes the continuing attempt to paint “new nuclear” as a breakthrough.

“Australia’s nuclear energy debate reaches Peak Idiocy this week with the visit of Jessica Lovering from the U.S. Breakthrough Institute. Lovering has and will be speaking at public events alongside Australian university student Ben Heard.

“Both the Breakthrough Institute and Heard’s Bright New World present themselves as progressive environment groups but they are single-issue, pro-nuclear lobby groups with little interest in broader environmental issues. Australia’s environment groups ? i.e. real environment groups ? are united in our opposition to nuclear power.

” Real environment groups celebrate the spectacular growth of renewables and the spectacular cost reductions whereas pro-nuclear lobby groups, including Lovering’s Breakthrough Institute and Heard’s Bright New World, are on a never-ending campaign against renewables. Global renewable energy capacity has doubled over the past decade and current renewable capacity of 2,006 gigawatts (GW) is 5.1 times greater than nuclear power capacity of 392 GW (including idle reactors in Japan). Actual electricity generation from renewables (23.5% of global generation) is more than double that from nuclear power (10.7%) and the gap is widening every day.

“Lovering’s opinion piece in The Australian on Monday fails to note that her speaking trip is sponsored by the Minerals Council of Australia. Likewise, Heard has also been paid as a uranium industry consultant.

“Lovering brings a suitcase full of alternative facts to Australia. The most egregious is that the nuclear industry is in the middle of some sort of renaissance. Even her own institute contradicts this, bleating about nuclear power’s “rapidly accelerating crisis“, a “crisis that threatens the death of nuclear energy in the West“, “the crisis that the nuclear industry is presently facing in developed countries“, the “ashes of today’s dying industry”, and noting that “the industry is on life support in the United States and other developed economies“.”… Read more >>

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