REPORT: Billionaire Coal Diggers’ Fight for Life and Dignity!

As recent events confirm, these are desperate times and desperate times call for desperate measures! If BUMS* and our fossil fuel billionaire chums lose control over power generation, then billions in rightful coal profits are at stake and the world as we know it may...

Responding to treacherous announcement re free solar extractors

Responding to treacherous announcement re free solar extractors

BREAKING: On behalf of BUMS*, Coral Bleach and Lignite Pitt QC are seeking legal advice to challenge the Victorian state government's massive rooftop solar power scheme on the grounds that it undermines their legacy control over power. "It's a reckless and selfish...

Naming Rights for Gina Now: Re-launching The IPA @ABC!

Naming Rights for Gina Now: Re-launching The IPA @ABC!

  Today Coral Bleach and her high flying BUMS* entourage—including Our Gina, Our Mitch (Minister for Billionaires Communications), Our Rupie (Emperor of Our Media Empire), Our Vanessa (Chief of the Minerals Council of Australia and already on ABC’s Board thanks to Our...

#ArtNotEcocide

#ArtNotEcocide

Do you think it's reasonable for people with long histories of influencing public policies in order to prop up the profits of highly destructive industries to hold prestigious positions on boards and special committees of our nation’s proudest cultural institutions?...

THURSDAY 15 MARCH 2018

IPCC cities conference tackles gaps between science and climate action on the ground https://theconversation.com/ipcc-cities-conference-tackles-gaps-between-science-and-climate-action-on-the-ground-93287 Eastern Mediterranean summer will be two months longer by end of...

A cultural activist at COP23, Bonn

I am sitting in a café at the top of a department store in the middle of Bonn, Germany. I’m here for the coffee, free Wi-Fi and easy access to a toilet. The simple needs of a traveller. It’s early in the day and people, mostly older people, are gathered in small...

Only One Earth

Only One Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZLo8YUPHN4 Given the converging crisis we face—as evidenced by extreme weather conditions everywhere and horrifying rates of species loss—all polluting industries must now take full responsibility for halting their greenhouse gas...

Force for Sustainable Progress or Tool for Tyrants?

Force for Sustainable Progress or Tool for Tyrants?

As the US was reeling from unprecedented hurricanes, Climate Guardians hand delivered scrolls with universal messages to Silicon Valley. In our travels we had many conversations with curious passersby. We discussed the insidious and predatory ways in which profit...

Magicoal Pudding

Magicoal Pudding

Oh that Sweetie Alan Finkel, what a Sorcerer he is! While our people in high places combust over particulates in the Finkel Review’s Clean Energy Target, we Coal Diggers are secretly delighted! For, in line with our expertant submission, there’s to be no more...

Coal Diggers’ Landmark Claim against Mums, Dads and Farmers!

Coal Diggers’ Landmark Claim against Mums, Dads and Farmers!

How could we just stand by while poor Gina is being picked on for suing Victorians for $2.7bn for not letting her local pet company, Lakes Oil, frack where it wants, and Guatam fields such unreasonable attacks from all the little people having tanties and trying to...

#KeepYourPromise: reduce Australia’s emissions now

Mar 21, 2016

The Climate Guardians had a wonderful time on Sunday meeting both young people and caring grown ups at Templestowe College’s Sustainability Festival.

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We chose this inspiring community occasion to officially launch our #KeepYourPromise campaign, which demands that Australia’s leaders honour the promises that they made at COP21 in Paris. The strong response to the Climate Guardians’ #AngelPost mission (which delivered hundreds of children’s messages to COP21 decision makers in Paris) was the impetus for the #KeepYourPromise campaign. While it was encouraging that our sun-drenched and wind-swept country belatedly joined the ‘coalition of ambition’ we’re still waiting for signs that they will actually honour the commitments made on the world stage.

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For instance within nine days of agreeing to attempt to limit global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees (and a maximum of 2 degrees) the Federal government approved an extension of the Abbott Point Coal Terminal (located on the boundary of the world heritage listed Great Barrier Reef marine park). This would make Abbott Point the world’s largest coal port (at a time when the world is dumping the dangerous fuel) and would unleash the Galilee Basin carbon bomb by enabling other foreign owned climate wrecking coal projects.

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Around six weeks later further devastating cuts were made to the CSIRO’s climate science divisions. Then hot on the heels of gutting Australia’s climate research capacities the Turnbull government announced a new Energy Resources Growth Centre to ‘drive innovation, competitiveness and productivity across the oil, gas, coal and uranium sectors’ (which are largely owned by foreign corporations) at a cost of $15.4 million to Australian tax payers. Meanwhile, the government continues to repeal climate policies that were proving enormously successful at driving billions of dollars of new investments in clean renewable energy and creating thousands of new jobs in local, sustainable economies.

It’s not that sustainable, zero pollution and efficient energy alternatives aren’t available. In fact backed by cooperative finance models, determined communities have been driving inspiring sustainability projects despite the ongoing blocks and frustrations imposed by governments and entrenched energy retailers. Check out Solar Citizens and CORENA (Citizens Owned Renewable Energy Network Australia) to get an idea of how local communities are leading the charge towards a more fair and sustainable world consistent with our Climate Justice Plan.

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The #KeepYourPromise campaign will continue to track our government’s breaches of its commitments under the Paris Agreement and promote the community owned and controlled sustainable projects needed to avoid a climate and eco-system meltdown.

Do you believe that it is totally unacceptable for our “leaders” to continue to prop up dirty industries (and their investors), which are destroying the Earth’s capacity to support life while wilfully hindering the roll out of clean renewable energy? We do and we are 100% committed to ensuring that our politicians honour the fundamental duty of care that they owe to their children, grandchildren and the vulnerable communities that it is their job to protect. It’s time. #KeepYourPromise.

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