Here they are - Coral Bleach and The Coal Heads - at Parliament station standing up for BUMS, ahem, YOUR rightful rights and entitlements on the eve of Australia's Federal Election 2022! Making sure that peeps don't be fooled by other peeps' FAKE NEWS*!...
Sunday, 31st October 2021, from 7pm to sunset in Melbourne (from 8am Glasgow, UK time)
A performed installation of newly created music to send a powerful message to United Nations delegates as they arrived for Day 1 of COP26 climate negotiations.
As dusk fell, seven Climate Guardians performed on Melbourne’s iconic Princes Bridge; one Angel for each of the Earth’s continents. Joining as Angels, composers/musicians Susan Bamford Caleo and Elissa Goodrich performed their specially created music arranged for Federation Handbells.
To mark World Environment Day 2021, we're challenging one of Australia's most polluting proposals - BHP & Woodside's Scarborough LNG project. Seriously dodgy carbon accounting practices are enabling fossil fuel companies to exempt emissions from projects that they...
Image courtesy of Julian Meehan As reported in The Mornington Peninsula News, Climate Guardians proudly joined concerned local citizens from Save Westernport at Crib Point’s Woolley’s Beach on Monday 22 February. Our visit was strategically timed to coincide with the...
As challenging as well as deeply unfairly felt as lockdowns have been, COVID-19’s capacity to expose democracy’s diseases has been exceptional. At least it seems that a lot more people are seriously considering what the point is of: • leaders who wilfully ignore...
What follows is BUMS official submission to this heinous Victorian Government Inquiry: 24 August 2020 Crib Point Inquiry and Advisory Committee Planning Panels Victoria SUBMISSION: Crib Point gas import jetty and gas pipeline project Dear Sir/Madam, This Inquiry is...
In this leaked email from Coal Digger Coral Bleach to ScoMo, Aussie billionaire fossil fuel doyens plead for further massive public handouts. Dearly Devoted ScoMo, We can't thank you and your fossil fuel friendly office enough for entrusting us with Australia's...
As United Nations delegates were arriving for Day 1 of COP25 climate negotiations in Madrid, 624 pairs of hand cast clay skins from Bridget Nicholson’s Touch This Earth Lightly project lay in tight neat rows on the banks of the Yarra River opposite Federation Square...
Dear Mr Henry, Congratulations on your new role as BHP's CEO. We feel encouraged by reports suggesting that you intend continuing BHP's progress in response to fast evolving community expectations that companies take responsibility for their impacts on communities and...
Climate Guardians are immensely proud to have joined hundreds of courageous people from all walks of life—teachers, musicians, traditional custodians, doctors, writers, artists, labourers, nurses, academics and so on—at the recent IMARC (International Mining and...
Hazelwood fired up on the eve of the inaugural UN ‘Earth Summit’ (1972). Ironically it was at this Summit that the first UN declaration was made re addressing the seriousness of climate change.
The old and decrepit Hazelwood is an appalling polluter. It has long been recognised as one of the world’s dirtiest power plants, emitting in the order of 1.52 tonnes of CO2 for each mega-watt hour of electricity produced. Given the untold health and environmental damage that the Hazelwood mine and plant have done (including the deadly 2014 mine fire) it’s an absolute disgrace that it has had a permit to operate (and since the mid 1990’s make significant profits for private shareholders) for so long. It is particularly perverse and unacceptable that government policies and taxpayers’ money have helped wreak such havoc on the local environment and global climate.
Hazelwood’s mine fire burned for 45 days – blanketing the surrounding La Trobe Valley with toxic coal ash and filling the air with extreme levels of noxious smoke and carbon monoxide causing 11 deaths
Given how far Hazelwood is beyond its use by date, it’s a disgrace that no proper plan exists to quickly transition the Latrobe Valley (and other coal affected communities) towards renewables with cutting edge energy efficiency and storage technologies. Instead the community is still largely at the mercy of the speculative and staggeringly inhumane free market economy. Just a glance at the history of globalisation confirms that unchecked economic rationalism results in chaos for local communities, including steeply rising inequity and irreversible environmental degradation.
Carrying the red line symbolising a crossing of the Earth’s critical physical and social limits; it marks a non-negotiable no go zone where wholesale systems collapse^
Just as they did during COP21 in Paris, the Climate Guardians will continue to stand with the Latrobe Valley community in calling for a #JustTransition for workers, rather than ‘compensation’ for speculative fossil fuel investors. The community cannot and must not be left behind as we make the urgently required transition away from toxic and finite power sources towards zero pollution, 100 per cent renewable ones.
A flock of Climate Guardian Angels descended on Engie’s global head office to call the transnational energy corporation to account for its reckless and self-serving approach to business
Please join us in calling for determined, progressive government policies combined with collaborative community consultation to make the Latrobe Valley a global leader in demonstrating what a socially and environmentally sustainable #JustTransition looks like.