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[This media release was issued by the Conservation Council of WA on 12 April 2011.]

Western Australia’s peak environment group has challenged the LNG industry to come clean on its massive carbon pollution and stop making false claims about LNG as a clean fuel source.

Conservation Council Director Piers Verstegen said “The LNG industry cannot continue to hide behind ‘clean energy’ claims that are simply not supported by the evidence.

“The clean energy claim is totally incongruous with the reality that the LNG industry is likely to be the single greatest contributor to carbon pollution growth in WA and Australia over the next ten years.

“In Western Australia, the LNG industry has well and truly overtaken coal burning as the largest source of carbon pollution.

[Media release from third Climate Action Summit. 11 April 2011]

Three hundred grassroots climate activists representing over 100 community climate action groups around Australia have voiced their frustration over the failure of Australian governments to develop effective climate policy.

Participants at the Climate Action Summit in Melbourne on Saturday and Sunday called for far more ambitious emission reduction targets and policies that will deliver large and escalating emissions reductions to achieve zero net emissions in the shortest possible timeframe.

Participants declared the current proposals being developed by the federal government’s Multi-Party Climate Change Committee for an interim carbon tax and subsequent emissions trading scheme as inadequate.

[This media release was issued by the Conservation Council on 23 March 2011.]

Over 500 West Australians showed their support for urgent action on climate change in Perth today outside the Convention Centre, where an international sustainable energy exhibition is being held.

Organised by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition; Conservation Council WA; The Wilderness Society; Oxfam; Greenpeace Australia; and the Oaktree Foundation, the rally was held at the Perth Convention Centre, coinciding with the first day of an international conference showcasing renewable energies, organised by the Sustainable Energy Association of Australia.

An important victory was won on March 21 when the Environmental Protection Authority released its decision that the "Vasse Coal Management’s coal mining proposal is environmentally unacceptable".

"In effect, this is an EPA 'no' to the proposal," EPA Chairman Paul Vogel said.

It was standing room only at the Perth Town Hall when Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) launched their award-winning Zero Carbon Australia 2020 (ZCA2020) Stationary Energy Plan on March 14.