FoE – Page 16 – Friends of the Earth Adelaide

Invitation to Defend Renewables meeting 22 Nov

robyn November 9, 2016

Victoria’s Yes2Renewables campaign is expanding to South Australia and you are invited to be part of it. Individuals and renewables campaign groups such as Friends of the Earth Adelaide’s Clean Futures Collective, Solar Citizens, Climate Emergency Action Network, and Australian Youth Climate Coalition are joining together to defend renewables in SA.

Next meeting Tuesday 22 November, 6.30pm at the Joinery 111 Franklin St
Facebook event

Yes2Renewables Team photo 8 November 2016 – please join us!

RENEWABLE ENERGY IS UNDER ATTACK!

South Australia is a renewable energy success story. The state is fast approaching 50% renewables and has booming solar, energy storage, and wind power sectors.

This success has made South Australia public enemy #1 for the fossil fuel lobby, who will do anything to stop our transition to 100% renewables.

In July, the fossil fuel lobby and their boosters in the media blamed renewable energy for price spikes caused by big coal and gas copanies gaming the market. And in September they blamed a blackout on renewables rather than the obvious cause: a one-in-fifty-year storm.

The fossil fuel lobby is prepared to sacrifice South Australian jobs, investment in regional communities, and our climate to protect their own interests.

In Novermber, community members met up at The Joinery in Adelaide to kick off a grassroots campaign to defend South Australia’s renewable energy leadeship.

We’re fired up and ready for action, but we’re going to need a hand… Will you join us at the next meeting of the Yes 2 Renewables Adelaide action group?

You’ll meet fellow community members who want to rollout renewables. Snacks and beverages will be available. And no prior knowledge is needed.

Attendees will find out about our strategy to defend South Australia’s renewable energy leadership, secure jobs and investment, and ramp up action on climate change. Most importantly, we’ll start taking action together.

Please feel free to bring family, friends, and colleagues along to the info session.

For more info, visit https://yes2renewables.org/ or contact Leigh Ewbank on 0406 316 176 / leigh.ewbank@foe.org.au

Clean Futures, Climate, FoE, Old_Notes, Renewables

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No Nuclear Waste Dump rally – report back

robyn October 16, 2016

Photo credit: Gemma Weedall

Saturday Oct 15 saw over 3,000 people turn out on the steps of Parliament House to defend South Australia from both the federal government’s national nuclear waste dump, and the state government’s international waste dump.

Friends of the Earth members were proud to have been a part of the rally and on the Organising Committee.

Well done to everyone who came along to show there is not community consent for either proposal.

The rally was covered by the Advertiser and ABC websites and the television news for ABC, Channel 7 and 9.

Actions, Clean Futures, FoE, Nuclear

*events*, Adelaide, anti-nuclear

Reminder: Rally Against Nuclear Waste Dumps Sat 15 Oct

robyn October 11, 2016

Join members of FOE Adelaide at the

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS

NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPs
NOT WORTH THE RISK!
STAND UP FOR SA
11AM, OCT 15, 2016
PARLIAMENT HOUSE STEPS
NORTH TCE ADELAIDE
KAURNA LAND

Lets come together to show our support for a nuclear free future!

We encourage all creativity so bring your banners, signs and costumes. Lets make it a great day.

Saturday October 15, 2016 marks 63 years since the first atomic bomb test at Emu Junction in South Australia.

The Federal Government is pursuing plans to build a national waste dump in the Flinders Ranges while a proposal for South Australia to take the worlds international high level nuclear waste continues to be progressed by the SA state government.

Communities across the state are saying ‘no way’.

We can do better than to take the worlds worst waste’.

You can pick up posters at the Joinery, 111 Franklin Street, Adelaide.

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Report back: Port Augusta nuclear exposure weekend conference

robyn September 28, 2016

Exposure 2016 saw communities from all over South Australia travel to Port Augusta to join with locals and talk nuclear waste. Over 100 people passed through the registration desk to engage in sessions and workshops, share ideas and for a yarn, get inspired and work together for future action against state and federal government’s plans to build nuclear waste dumps in SA.

Full reportback here: pt-augusta-nuclear-exposure-report-back

Members of Friends of the Earth Adelaide’s Clean Futures Collective travelled to Port Augusta to support the conference.

Clean Futures, FoE, Nuclear, Old_Notes

*events*, anti-nuclear

nuclear? unclear…

roman September 18, 2016

We weren’t surprised at the Nuclear Royal Commission recommendations.

We were, however, disappointed by the poor quality of the report.

We have a presentation for those still undecided about the dump proposal, highlighting some of the
extraordinary assumptions and interesting features of the proposal.

A lot of the information came from work by other people and groups, including David Noonan, Jim Green, the australia institute, FoE Australia and the Conservation Council SA.

Key resources

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