Join a Writing Party this Wednesday (24th Nov) to add your comment on 18 future fossil fuel projects Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has promised to review! Read on for more details.
Have you noticed the wave of outrage over fossil fuel sponsorship lately? More than $14 million a year is spent by coal, oil and gas companies ‘greenwashing’ their brand. But with more and more people calling time out on sponsorship, fossil fuels companies are feeling the heat. Even the ACCC, Australia’s consumer watchdog, has now warned companies that they cannot falsely promote “environmental” or “green” credentials to capitalise on changing consumer preferences. Check out these latest wins! 🏆 🏆 🏆
Darwin Festival drops Santos: Gas giant Santos has ended its nearly three decade sponsorship of the popular Darwin Festival, after a lengthy campaign by environmentalists and traditional owners opposed to plans to develop the multi-billion dollar Barossa gas field off the territory's coast.
⚡ Fremantle Dockers urged to drop Woodside: High-profile Dockers fans and insiders – including inaugural football manager Gerard McNeill, ex-player Dale Kickett, former WA premier Carmen Lawrence, author Tim Winton, Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist Bill Hare and former Woodside climate change adviser Alex Hillman – have released an open letter demanding the end of fossil fuel sponsorship.
⚡ Perth Festival drops Chevron: Four years of campaigning by artists and the community has led Perth Festival and US fossil fuel giant Chevron to part ways from mid-2023 after a decades long partnership.
⚡ Cricket Australia drops Alinta Energy: Australia's Test cricket captain Pat Cummins has said he’ll no longer do ads for coal station operator Alinta Energy, while Cricket Australia announced the end of their $40 million sponsorship agreement.
Sustained action by people such as yourselves lead to these great results. Start here today with our Climate Club Queensland picks for taking action. 🌞 🍍
What can you do today?
🐝 If you have 5 minutes:
Our state and federal governments hand over $22,000 every minute in public money to the polluting coal and gas industries, which fuel climate impacts like more extreme floods, fires and droughts. Call on the Australian Government to end public money for fossil fuels!
Action: Join more than 8,800 people by adding your name to the petition.
Our Federal Government has an opportunity to address our cost of living crisis, our energy crisis and the climate crisis, by implementing a Renewable Energy Storage Target. By deploying storage solutions like home batteries and electric vehicles that can feed cheap clean energy back into the grid, we can save households thousands and slash emissions – all while strengthening the grid and saving on costs for larger infrastructure.
Action: Sign Solar Citizens’ petition to call on the Federal Government to set a Renewable Energy Storage Target to unlock Australia’s renewable potential.
🐇 If you have 15 minutes:
Whitehaven Coal faced backlash from investors at its 26 October Annual General Meeting, when more than a fifth of Whitehaven’s shareholders demanded the company stop expanding and start managing down coal mining in line with a net zero emissions by 2050 pathway. There has never been a better time for Whitehaven’s lenders to cut ties with the company.
Action: Send an email to Whitehaven’s bankers, including NAB and Westpac, to urge them to cut ties NOW! Your email will pressure NAB in particular, already under community pressure from the Move Beyond Coal movement.
The Climate Council is calling for Australia’s 10 biggest corporate polluters to publicly pledge to cut their emissions in absolute terms by 2030 under a Safeguard Mechanism that requires Australia's largest greenhouse gas emitters to keep their net emissions below an emissions limit. Add your voice to the call!
Action: Email or tweet the top 10 biggest corporate polluters in Australia to urge them to make a strong and public commitment to genuinely cut emissions each year to 2030.
💃🏽 If you have 30 minutes or more:
Here are two ways that you can powerfully use your voice with a chance to stop 18 fossil fuel projects. Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is currently accepting public comment on the projects, after the Environment Council of Central Queensland and Environmental Justice Australia won a request to have the projects reviewed. This is a big deal!
Write your own submission - you don’t need to be a lawyer or scientist to make a comment. You can write a few sentences, a few hundred words or attach a lengthy submission. Or join the submission writing party! Writing with others can be easier so join in and smash those submissions out 👍
Action: Write a submission right now, or on Wed 23rd November join a Writing Party . All submissions are due by Thu 24th November!
Under the Lake Eyre Basin lies some of the dirtiest gas resources in Australia. The Palaszczuk government has promised protection for the Lake Eyre Basin at three elections and still has not locked it in.
Action: Join Lock the Gate for a rally with Lake Eyre Basin Traditional Owners to push the Qld Government to rule out any new oil and gas activity on the incredible floodplains of the Lake Eyre Basin. Tues November 29th 11am - 12pm at QLD Parliament House Brisbane.
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Ron plus Jan, Robyn and Malcolm - The Climate Club Qld team
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I love the focus on wins here team! Such an uplifting issue after the heaviness of all the COP weeks :) Also, Ron - were you in Nepal recently? I was just there for work too!