Over 400 energised Surf Coast residents united by a concern for climate change

Opinion articles and news items relating to concerns about the Anglesea Coal mine.

www.angleseanews.com

SCEG is a member and shareholder in Hepburn wind and we follow with interest their progress.

Hepburn Wind website

The state government and Alcoa are currently in negotiation over the renewal of Alcoa's mining lease which expires at the end of 2011, for a further 50 years. Anglesea Air Action is a newly formed group of Anglesea residents and supporters which is backed by the SCEG

On Easter Saturday, 130 Anglesea residents and visitors turned up to support the Anglesea Air Action group in publicly voicing their concerns over the future of the Alcoa Anglesea mine. Three speakers addressed the crowd highlighting the groups three key concerns; the health effects of living so close to a coal mine, the potential for change to renewable energy away from polluting coal and the value of the unique biodiversity of the Anglesea heath, potentially under threat with the proposed mine expansion.

More information and a petition can be found at www.angleseaairaction.org or by contacting Sonia on 0425 748 846.

SCEG is a supporter of this national campaign, which is connecting groups like ours across the country. The campaign is in its early stages, but is kicking off with a call  for a national feed-in tariff to support small, medium and large scale renewable energy projects as the first step towards our renewable energy future.

Read more at the 100% Renewable Campaign website.  

Support the campaign by following SCEG on the local groups page.

 Articles from around the world supporting this claim: 

"Last month was the hottest June ever recorded worldwide and the fourth consecutive month that the combined global land and sea temperature records have been broken." - John Vidal, The Age 18 July 2010.

Climate Progress reports, "NOAA's National Climatic Data Center has posted its State of the Climate, Global Analysis for June.  The results confirm those of NASA:  The first half of 2010 breaks the thermometer. 

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