By Alex Cassie
The town of Collie was created for the coal industry, which has powered WA for a century. The Collie community is full of skilled workers who for generations have kept the lights on in WA. The increasing …
By Ivan Quail
Australia makes up 5% of the world’s land mass, yet we have 34% of the world’s Uranium reserves. Unfortunately, “natural” fossil gas is not pure methane. It also contains radioactive Radon gas, Radon 222, produced naturally in …
Protected forests play a critical role in removing carbon from the atmosphere; bringing rain; and providing homes and food for wildlife. But every day in the South West of WA, 10 football fields of Karri and Jarrah forests are logged …
By Maya Taylor-Trenow
With last year’s funding cuts to Australian universities, the pandemic-induced decrease in international student enrolments, and the financial support offered by its close ties with oil and gas companies such as Chevron, Woodside and LNG, UWA’s Fossil …
Following intense pressure from #STOP ADANI, Lloyd’s of London have just released their first-ever climate policy, calling on all Lloyd’s insurers to stop issuing new insurance for thermal coal mines – like Adani’s Carmichael coal project – from 2022, and …
By Cyril Toman
The Morrison Government’s spruiking of a ‘gas-led recovery’ and gas as the ‘transition fuel’ is – as we suspected – a load of hot air. So say two independent, authoritative, reports issued recently by the Grattan …
Year after year, decade after decade, temperature records are rising due to the burning of coal, oil and gas.
This month, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its Global Climate Report, confirming that 2020 was the second …
By Celine Lai
The WA State Government announced its long-awaited Climate Policy in November 2020. The Climate Policy focuses on six areas that would decarbonise part of WA’s economy, including a WA State Electric Vehicle Strategy to help prepare for …
By our ‘special correspondent’
As the price for continued financial support of Perth Fringe Festival, Woodside has obliged organisers and artists to self-censor and avoid any “act or omission” that might tarnish Woodside’s public image.
At the opening …
Last month our report “Captured State: The influence of the gas lobby on W.A.” detailed the revolving door between big fossil fuel companies and the Western Australian Government.
The Report proves that, if we are to shift WA …