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Trans-Pacific Partnership campaign request

robyn April 3, 2015

Fair Food Adelaide’s March Against Monsanto project invite you to take action about the Trans-Pacific Partnership by emailing Trade Minister Andew Robb.

The Trans Pacific Partnership campaign by Getup asks you to please consider writing a quick email to Trade Minister Andrew Robb: tell him not to sign.

The Trans Pacific Partnership will allow corporations to sue the government

if they don’t like our food labelling,
if they don’t like our ban on GM in foods over 1%,
if they don’t like SA’s GM moratorium,
if they don’t like us banning gas fracking of farmlands and wilderness
if any legislation interferes with their business plans

The TPP will make medicines vastly more expensive and generally undermine Australia’s sovereignty. Our federal, state and local governments will be beholden to foreign multinationals when writing our laws through fear of being sued.

Actions, Environmental Law, Food, Sustainability

Australian Sovereignty, climate change, fair food adelaide, Food, food sovereignty, Gas Fracking, Genetically Modified Food and Crops, March Against Monsanto, Mining

Fri Feb 13th – Break up with Fossil Fuels in the Mall! 11am

robyn February 6, 2015

On February 13 Adelaide is joining the global movement to divest from fossil fuels. We invite you to join us in the Rundle Mall to learn about the divestment movement and take action against dangerous climate change.

Hear from speakers and take part in this global event as we travel from the West to the East side of Rundle Mall.

Please wear ORANGE and lots of it 🙂

Together, we will show that we are a truly global and growing force to be reckoned with. As the fossil fuel industry throws more money at fossil fuel expansion, we will turn up the volume of our divestment movement. And we won’t stop until we win.

Organised by 350.org and the Conservation Council of SA

For more information see our Facebook event or contact Robyn robyn.wood@foe.org.au

Actions, Clean Futures, Climate, Divestment, Old_Notes, Renewables

*events*, Adelaide, community, divestment, education, Mining, Sustainability

Parliamentary Inquiry into gas fracking in SE South Australia

robyn January 30, 2015

FoE members and friends are invited to make a submission into gas fracking in the south east of SA around the Mt Gambier region. See below and contact Robyn for more information robyn.wood@foe.org.au

Inquiry into fracking in South Eastern South Australia
by Cam Walker FoE Melbourne

On 19th November 2014, a motion by Greens MP Mark Parnell to establish a Parliamentary Inquiry into fracking in the South East of SA was passed by the Legislative Council.

Submissions are now being called by the Natural Resources Committee of the SA Parliament.

The Terms of Reference are to consider:

Potential risks and impacts in the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to produce gas in the South East of SA and in particular:

The risks of groundwater contamination;

The impacts upon landscape;

The effectiveness of existing legislation and regulation; and

The potential net economic outcomes to the region and the rest of the state.

Please write a brief submission expressing your concerns about this industry. Simply explain your concerns, add a link to references where you have them, include your name and contact details and send to:

Executive Officer, Natural Resources Committee, GPO Box 572, Adelaide SA 5001, or email: patrick.dupont@parliament.sa.gov.au

Please note that the deadline for submissions is 31^st January 2015.

Contact details for enquiries: Ph: (08) 8237 9442, Fax: (08) 8231 9130 or email: patrick.dupont@parliament.sa.gov.au.

Actions, Climate, FoE

Yellowcake Uranium oxide accident at Outer Harbor

robyn December 17, 2014

Yellowcake uranium oxide is transported by truck from the Olympic Dam mine at Roxby Downs in South Australia, through Port Adelaide to the docks at Outer Harbor, to be loaded onto ships for export. The yellowcake is packed inside sealed drums in a shipping container on the truck.

Early in the evening of Friday October 3rd 2014 an accident occurred at Outer Harbor. When the shipping container was being unloaded from the truck it slipped and fell to the ground. Emergency services were called, but as this was an accident involving dangerous goods and Outer Harbor didn’t have the facilities to open the container to check for spillage, the Environment Protection Agency was also called in to advise. After checking the container with a geiger counter, the EPA determined that there was no radioactivity measurable outside the container.

Actions, Clean Futures, FoE, Mining, Nuclear, Transport

Adelaide, anti-nuclear, BHP Billiton; Olympic Dam, friends of the earth

BHP-Billiton AGM Public Action Nov 20th

robyn October 29, 2014

BHP’s Annual General Meeting will be held in Adelaide at the Entertainment Centre 98 Port Rd, Hindmarsh, on Thursday 20th November 2015.

Join us from 9-10:30am to voice your support for the brave community voices heading into the AGM with support from BHP Shareholder for social responsibility to ask the hard questions about environmental destructions, community consultation, lack of responsibility and future risks.

Actions, Clean Futures, Climate, FoE, Mining, Nuclear, Transport, Weapons proliferation