climate justice

One of Australia's leading environmental organisations has called for the federal government to go further than arguing merely for a carbon price. Friends of the Earth is calling for a range of measures that would significantly increase the development of renewable energy.

Six Degrees has recently joined the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance:  a national collaboration of organisations and individuals working together towards a food system in which people have the opportunity to choose, create and manage their food supply from paddock to plate.

The purpose of the Alliance is to cooperate to create an equitable, sustainable and resilient food system for all Australians - a cause to which we are deeply committed.

Imagine if an Energy Company came to your house to let you know they were going to put a gas well on your property. How would you feel? 

This excellent video by the Basin Sustainability Alliance and Save Our Darling Downs will give you a sense of what to expect.

It also provides advice on what you need to do if you are in this situation.

Six Degrees demands that the Queensland State Government impose immediately a moratorium on all further coal seam gas (or CSG) development until it can be unequivocally demonstrated that they will not have unacceptable social and environmental impacts. These include the risks to freshwater supplies in shallow aquifers and to the structural integrity of the Great Artesian Basin.

Find out why here.

Six Degrees spokesperson Drew Hutton appeared yesterday on Stateline to outline the reasons for our call for an end to Queensland's dangerous experiments with coal seam gas and underground coal gasification. As Mr Hutton says in this interview, "our beautiful state is in the process of being wrecked and turned into an industrial waste land by government irresponsibility."

This poster was prepared put together by John Graham and members of the Mackay Conservation Group.

It's more than the crops that are taking root and unfurling green leaves in Queensland this Spring. From the headwaters of the Murray-Darling on the Darling Downs, farmers' groups are fighting the government sponsored expansion of the coal industry into their food-producing lands, but are adding a twist to their campaigning: a green twist.