Redbank power station have submitted a modification application to their original coal based Development Application, a modification which will allow them to burn native forest ‘biofuel’ instead of coal. The original reasoning for the 1993 Singleton Council development consent for the Redbank power station was that the power station burn local coal mine waste tailings,…
Condong to burn 120,000 tonnes of ‘industrial waste’ timber from Brisbane
The Condong electricity power generator plant is to be reclassified as an “energy from waste” (EfW) facility. … The repurposed Condong Sugar Mill power plant is to burn: 1. Waste from Brisbane – 120,000 tonnes of ‘industrial waste timber with up to 10% plastic and 10% fabrics [also plastic]’ ‘recovered timber fuel’ sourced from ‘construction,…
Time to end logging of public native forests
NEFA MEDIA RELEASE: Time to end logging of public native forests. NEFA is calling upon the NSW Government to follow the leads of Western Australia and Victoria by immediately adopting a plan to phase out logging of public native forests because of their vital roles in taking up and storing carbon and providing homes for…
Australian Forest Network calls on the Federal and State Governments to immediately stop logging in our public native forests.
We call on the Federal and State Governments to immediately stop logging and all other forms of degradation in our public native forests. Australia now faces the existential crises of catastrophic climate change and biodiversity loss. Species are hurtling towards extinction as they face a rapidly changing climate and habitat destruction. Forest-dependent species are especially…
Dear Minister for Energy & Environment: Save our forests from the furnaces !!!
Dear Minister, We are excited to note the bipartisan support for the recommendation that native forest biomass not be allowed in energy generation facilities in the parliamentary inquiry into “Sustainability of energy supply and resources in NSW” that reported to the NSW Government in August 2021. How will you act to implement the inquiry’s recommendations? The committee:…
NEFA and the EDO are to challenge the legality of the much hated NE NSW Regional Forest Agreement!
The much hated North East Regional Forestry Agreement (NE RFA) exempts logging in native forests from the federal biodiversity assessment and logging approval requirements of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. NEFA is asking the Federal Court to declare that the North East RFA does not validly exempt native forest logging from these federal biodiversity laws. In order for an RFA to exempt native forest logging from the usual federal…
Burning wood for electricity doesn’t pass the pub* test [*Parliament]
North East Forest Alliance Media Release “The writing is on the wall for wood-fired power stations”, said NEFA spokesperson Susie Russell. “We are relieved that both Liberal and Labor politicians who participated in the parliamentary inquiry into “Sustainability of energy supply and resources in NSW” have recommended that native forest biomass not be allowed in…
Invitation for public comment on the draft National Recovery Plan for the Koala.
The Department of the Environment and Energy have drafted a “National Recovery Plan for the Koala.” “The National Recovery Plan for the Koala identifies national-level strategic actions to support recovery of the EPBC Act listed Koala.” The plan “sets out the research and management actions necessary to stop the decline, and support the recovery, of the…
Meeting Around Proposed Amendments Which Will Eliminate Protection Of Koala Habitat On The North Coast
World Environment Day Festival – Knox Park Murwillumbah
UN: “THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A MORE URGENT NEED TO RESTORE DAMAGED ECOSYSTEMS THAN NOW.” UN Secretary General: “Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Biodiversity is collapsing. Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes.” Ecosystems are the systems of inter-related, inter-dependent lifeforms on this planet. This year’s event launched “The UN Decade on…
Public Statement to Au & NSW.gov from AFCA, CEC, et al: “Reject plans by Verdant Technologies to recommission Redbank Power Station.”
We call on the governments of NSW and Australia to reject plans by Verdant Technologies to recommission Redbank Power Station near Singleton and use native forest biomass as fuel. Redbank operated as a coal-fired power station from 2001 to 2014 when it was mothballed after the company went into receivership. The new owner, Verdant Technology,…
Stop the ‘Native Forest Biomass’ Industry – Rescue Australian Native Forests
1) Australian Native Forests Are To Replace Coal As Furnace Fuel For Electricity. Australian Native Forests are to be industrially fed into electricity power station furnaces overseas – to replace coal – to boil water to turn turbines to make electricity to be used momentarily then it is gone. ‘Somehow’, The European Union have legally…
The Caldera Environment Centre opposes any further expansion of water mining and extraction facilities in the Tweed Shire.
To the General Manager, Tweed Shire Council. Submission Re: DA 19-0346. The Caldera Environment Centre opposes any further expansion of water mining and extraction facilities in the Tweed Shire. Last year (May 2020) the Tweed Council passed a moratorium on new water mining facilities and we ask that this policy continue to be acknowledged. During…
Your Native Forests Are To Be Used As Furnace Fuel For Electricity
Your Native Forests are to be industrially fed into electricity power station furnaces overseas – to replace the now banned coal – to boil water to turn turbines to make electricity to be used momentarily then it is gone. ‘Somehow’, The European Union have legaly declared that burning Native Forests as coal-replacement fuel for electricity generation…
Hope, Resilience and Healing for Humanity and the Earth – Workshop
A Work that Reconnects workshop at the Chillingham Community Centre on the 23rd of May Time: 8.30am-4.30pm. “We are living through difficult times, witnessing immense growing social injustices and the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth. Many of us feel called to act, and while political engagement is crucial, many are also asking, how do we…
The Caldera/Greens planned meeting regarding the SEPP/LLS situation is being rescheduled, …
Caldera Environment Centre & Tweed Greens Invite representatives from Tweed based environmental and Koala groups and individuals to discussion of the SEPP 2021 and LLS Amendment Act, with ! Cate Faehrmann MLC NSW Greens, ! Cr Katie Milne, ! Dailan Pugh (NEFA). “What actions can the community take to rectify the detrimental changes to policy and legislation by the NSW…
The SEPP 2021 Explained
State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP) (Koala habitat Protection) 2021, in the Ministers words: 1. SEPP21 Gets land zoned for primary production or forestry out of the SEPP “Land zoned for primary production or forestry in regional NSW will not be subject to the new SEPP.” 2. SEPP21 Gets the Koala-Habitat-Protection-Laws out of the SEPP “Koala…
To STOP SEPP 20 and #saveourkoalas here is an example of what to say and where to facebook, @, email and say it to 5 politicians
Here is a (1) an example text, (2) a list of contact details (fb,@,eMail,ph) for 5 key office holding politicians, and (3) a list of key points to use. Example text written by Nola Firth I am writing to register my extreme outrage and distress at the SEPP 21 deal done by your government at the…
D Day for Koalas
Dailan Pugh, North East Forest Alliance. It is D Day in the Koala Wars, this is the day we need to turn around Koala’s extinction trajectory and begin their recovery. First we need to urgently identify where their core habitat is and then we need to protect it, to save Koalas we need to stop…
Submission – ‘Nightcap on Minjungbul’ (DA21/0010) Caldera Environment Centre
Submission opposing DA21/0010 ‘Nightcap on Minjungbul’. A concept development application (DA) was lodged with Tweed Shire Council on 14 January 2021 over land at 2924, 2956, 2984 and 3222 Kyogle Road, Kunghur & Mount Burrell, hereafter referred to as “the site”. The application seeks approval for: Integrated Development – staged concept development application under s4.22 of…
Make a submission to TSC regarding DA21/0010 Nightcap on Minjungbal, before 24th March.
NRG sponsored a public meeting on Sunday, 14 March, to air information and views on (Tweed Shire) DA21/0010 for a proposed development known as Nightcap on Minjungbal, located off Kyogle Road between Mount Burrell and Kunghur. Turnout for the meeting was good, and much information was shared. This message is to let you know that…
Local Koala Protest – National Day of Action
MEDIA RELEASENorthern Rivers Guardians Inc. Koala advocates demand Koala habitat protection The clouds parted and the sun was shining on koala advocates who gathered at Knox Park in Murwillumbah on Saturday, for the Northern Rivers Guardians (NRG) hosted #SaveOurKoalas Day of Action. The Murwillumbah event was one of many similar public gatherings scheduled to be held across…
NEFA: Forest Media
NEFA: Forest Media Koalas continue to be the key issue. Kean came under attack from the ALP and the right-wing shock-jocks when it was revealed that he had been strongly advised not to set a target for Koalas before he announced he was going to double their populations. He thought it was good politics. His…
Bob Brown Foundation: UPDATE 3: Help take the Great Forest Case to the High Court
From the Bob Brown Foundation: “We have important, exciting news. Today, we made an application to appeal the Great Forest Case to the High Court. While we are not guaranteed a High Court hearing, we believe this case is of major public importance, dealing with a matter of national environmental significance, and deserves to be…
Friends of the Koala, Cudgen Nature Reserve, Caldera Environment Centre Representation to the Member for Tweed, the Hon. Geoff Provest, MP
Conserving and recovering Tweed’s koala populations The issues on which we seek representation: 1. Local Land Services Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill 2020 – Adverse impact of Private Native Forestry (PNF) Amendments and ‘Allowable Activity Land’ The amendments to the discredited Local Land Services Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill 2020 not only sought to double the duration for PNF…
North East Forest Alliance Meeting with Geoff Provest
NEFA considers it reprehensible that the NSW Government have refused to approve Tweed Shire Council’s Koala Plan of Management for the past 6 years because they wanted it weakened, even though two Government agencies helped draft it. The National’s Local Land Services Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill sought to limit accreditation of Koala Plans of Management under…
Bob Brown Foundation: UPDATE 2: “The judgment was against us as the Federal Court decided that the purpose of the RFA Act was not to protect the environment.”
The Bob Brown Foundation campaign and court action to end native forest logging (!), a monumental legal case challenging the regulation of native forest logging. The Great Forest Case is the best chance in a generation of ending native forest logging. UPDATE 1: The Great Forest Case hearings were on 2nd and 3rd of December! The Bob…
Native Forests ARE NOT ‘Biofuel’ replacement for coal.
Here and now, at The Time of The Collapse Of The Ecology, they are doubling down on stupid. They are industrially feeding our native forests into furnaces, as a replacement for coal, to make electricity. They have changed the laws to take away the tree protections. They have made laws which say that burning forests…
NEFA: Forest Media Review
Forest Media Review from the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) Burning forests for electricity not on: The Nambucca Guardian had an in-depth story on biomass (with a focus on Way Way, Newry, Tarkeeth, and Redbank) (citing Michael Jones, Susie Russell, Dailan Pugh). https://www.nambuccaguardian.com.au/story/7118714/will-nambuccas-forests-be-burnt-for-electricity/ … A group of over 500 international scientists have written to…
EPBC Act Review Condems EPBC Act
“… the EPBC Act does not position the Commonwealth to protect the environment, … it is not fit to manage current or future environmental challenges.” “Australia’s natural environment and iconic places are in an overall state of decline and are under increasing threat. The current environmental trajectory is unsustainable. “The EPBC Act is ineffective. It…