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CAN Newsletter September 2011
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Newcastle Cycling Strategy Workshop
There has been some hardwork put intothe Newcastle Cycling Strategy and an overview will be provided and your feedback sought on Wedneday 21st September at 6pm at the Newcastle Museum. Further details are available here: http://www.transitionnewcastle.org.au/event/newcastle-cycling-strategy-workshop-0
If
you are able to attend, please register by
email to info@newcastlecycleways.org.au
Fat Cats and Billionaires Party at the Crowne Plaza Hotel - Crash the Coal Conference
The
fat cat coal and gas magnates are having a conference in Newcastle
next week. For over $3000 a ticket, we could sit inside the Crowne
Plaza and listen to their plans to rip up new areas of the Hunter and
Liverpool Plains, sink gas wells through our local aquifers and add
extra terminals to what is already the world’s largest coal
port.
But there is a better story to tell. The recent
report by the Australia Institute, Mining the truth, show the
enormous Australian mining profit margins, just how few people are
actually employed in the mining industry (only 1.9%) and that 83% of
the industry is foreign owned.So while the billion dollar profit
margins (and millions of tonnes of climate change chaos) are shipped
overseas, the coal dust, destruction and dirty water stay here in the
Hunter.
Join us on Thursday 22 September, 10am, Crowne
Plaza Hotel, Wharf Road Newcastle.
Dress up as a fat cat coal
magnate ready to show off your wealth. Rising Tide will bring fliers
to hand out, banners and placards.
Helpers needed - please
contact Naomi Hogan 0401
650 411 if
you are free for an hour or two this Saturday 17 Sept for some
creative banner painting and costume preparation at Parry St’s
Hunter Community Environment Centre in Hamilton.
Letter Writing for the 100% Renewables Campaign
With the government looking so shaky we are very concerned about the delays and want to do what we can to ensure these bills are passed this year.
So.. this is an ask for you to write once
again to the multiparty committee on climate change. If they don't
hear from us, there will not be any pressure to see these bills pass.
We don't want all our hard work helping secure the renewables part of
the deal lost now.
Remember to tell them:
Who you
are, where you are from, how many people your group represents (if
you are a group)The results of your community conversations on
renewable energy (if you participated) What you are doing to promote
renewables energy/carbon price in your community and why you want to
see this legislation passed this year.
If you could
BCC info@100percent.org.au that
will help us track this communication.
The addresses to
copy and paste into your email
are:
greg.combet.mp@aph.gov.au, Tony.Windsor.MP@aph.gov.au,robert.oakeshott.mp@aph.gov.au, Wayne.Swan.MP@aph.gov.au, senator.milne@aph.gov.au,senator.bob.brown@aph.gov.au, mark.dreyfus.mp@aph.gov.au, adam.bandt.mp@aph.gov.au
And
Gillard: http://www.pm.gov.au/contact‐your‐pm
Further info at: http://www.100percent.org.au/front
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