“”… to spread awareness about the fake renewable, Biomass, and its serious consequences for our forests.” facebook.com/pg/BiomassActionGroup/post
Link: Biomass Action Group – BAG
Link: Stand Up For Cherry Tree Forest
“Join in protecting Cherry Tree State Forest from the threat of irreparable damage from logging. Our koalas, rivers and climate need this vital part of the Richmond Range ecological corridor stretching from the Border Ranges NP to the Bundjalung NP.” facebook.com/Stand.Up.For.Cherry.Tree
Link: Fridays For Forests
“Every Friday at 10am where ever you are it is time to join the action protecting our native forests from logging” facebook.com/groups/fridays4forests/
Update: Redbank Power Station (burning native forests for electricity instead of coal – or not)
Redbank power station have submitted to Singleton Council 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 reasoning for the original 1993 development consent for the Redbank power station was that the power station burn local coal mine waste…
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School Strike 4 Climate Dec 10th Knox Park Mur’bah
New David Bradbury Biomass Film – Please Watch and Share
Whole trees woodchipped and fed into giant furnaces to generate electricity and getting taxpayer subsidies to destroy forests as several people say in this clip, has to be one of the most ‘insane’ ideas currently happening on the Planet. We have to end this scam pronto – David. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=905957046686591
Ari of the CEC presented with TSC Sustainability Award
Ari Ehrlich of the Caldera Environment Centre has been presented with one of this year’s Tweed Shire Council Sustainability Awards. Ari received the award for his successful organising of the annual Caldera World Environment Day Festival event in Knox Park 6th June 2021. TSC: Tweed Sustainability: Recognising outstanding contributions to improved sustainability across multiple impact…
Why Native Forest Logging Must End
[nefanews]: Natural Resources Commission Report Leaked!~ (at last)
[nefanews]: The NSW Government must explain why it ignored the advice of the independent Natural Resources Commission and kept logging forests in regions hit hardest by the 2019-20 Black Summer Bushfires. The 2019/20 wildfires were unprecedented in their scale, extent of high and extreme fire severity, and duration. They burnt 4.8 million hectares of land…
The Logging Loophole at the Heart of Glasgow COP21 Deforestation Declaration
The Glasgow declaration on forests and land use pledges to stop deforestation by 2030, but a logging loophole in the declaration actually allows clearcutting and other ecologically destructive forestry practices to continue unchecked. Why is industrial logging excluded from the Glasgow Declaration on Deforestation? Why don’t clear-felled forests count? Why isn’t converting forests into monoculture…
NEFA News Alert: Two women block entrance to Heron’s Creek Mill in the lead up to COP26
Update: The two women have been arrested and taken into custody after blocking access to the Heron’s Creek sawmill near Port Macquarie for 7 hours. They endured the blazing sun, each with an arm locked into a 44 gallon drum of concrete, bearing the words ‘Saving Forests is Climate Action’. The women, one a grandmother and…
[nefanews] Banner drops send Koala message around the world
NSW Forest Defenders have targeted proposed and operating biomass facilities in NSW dropping banners that read “Dead Koala Energy #BigBadBiomass “and “No Trees for Electricity! Stop the Biomassacre”. Along with other actions around the country, the actions are part of the International Day of Action against #BigBadBiomass, the practice of cutting trees to burn in power…
Biomass Action Group Gathering at Condong Biomass Burning Power Plant
Biomass Action Group: Biggest turnout yet at Condong biomass plant! Thanks to our supporters and speakers Mandy Nolan, Iaun Gaillard, Nola Firth, and #fridaysforforests’ Sean O’Shannessy. Sending the message loud and clear that we need our forests now more than ever to draw down carbon, so do not accept biomass is the false solution it’s…
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,…
Link to Beyond Zero Emissions webinar
Research by Beyond Zero Emissions shows Australia can pursue an ambitious ‘Go for Gold’ scenario and secure a significant share of the global market for growth commodities, such as: Green steel Renewable hydrogen Renewable ammonia Green aluminium. These products are set to dominate global economic growth this century and Australia is well positioned to be…
Tweed Shire Council Sustainability Awards
Nominations have been received from across the community to share inspiring stories about people and projects working to protect and enhance our special and beautiful natural environment. The Caldera Environment Centre has nominated Ari Ehrlich for his successful organising of the annual Caldera World Environment Day Festival event in Knox Park 6th June 2021 [and over…
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…
Link: Caldera Wildscapes
https://www.calderawildscapes.org
EDO: Western Australia to end Native Forest Logging
Environmental Defenders Office: “In a huge win for native animal habitat and the climate, the West Australian Government has announced an end to native forest logging. The move is expected to preserve at least an additional 400,000 hectares of karri, jarrah and wandoo forests when a new Forest Management Plan comes into force in 2024. The…
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 et al [incl. CEC]: “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,…