Safe Climate Coalition News

Safe Climate Newsletter 19 November 2009

Dear friends and supporters,

Over 250 people took part in the "less than 350" action at state parliament on October 24.

Almost 200 cyclists arrived with the Critical Mass ride from PICA in Northbridge after making a 350 sign on the foreshore.

Speakers emphasised the need to reduce carbon dioxide below 350 ppm (parts per million) to a safe climate level of 300 ppm or less.

Safe Climate Newsletter 8 October 2009

Dear friends and supporters,

Penny Wong was the target of protesters including the Safe Climate Coalition when she came to Perth on Wed 30 September.

Safe Climate Newsletter

3 September 2009

The Safe Climate Coalition played a role in supporting the Perth premiere of the Age of Stupid on August 19.

The Perth Voice newspaper has reported on the Billionaires for Coal action under the headline "Perth pollution protest lampoons PM".

"Environmental groups held a tongue in cheek protest at Woodside plaza last Tuesday, posing as 'billionaire carbon fuel polluters' in love with the Rudd government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS)," reported the paper.

The report was accompanied by a large photo showing a mock Kevin Rudd handing over a cheque for $16.4 billion dollars to some of Australia's largest polluters.

Twenty "Billionaires for Coal" and their supporters held a mock rally on the steps of Woodside Plaza at lunch-time today.

Passersby watched as the billionaires rallied in favour of the government's emissions trading scheme, (CPRS) to be debated in the session of federal parliament that opens today.

Speakers Paul Ooter, Avaricious Hogg and Anne T Green, representing the coal industry, emissions-intensive trade exposed industries and Rio Tinto, lined up to pour praise on the government for generous industry subsidies and the lack of a mechanism to reduce greenhouse pollution.

Holding placards declaring "We pollute and you pay! Ha! Ha!" and "Let's just buy another planet", supporters chanted in favour of the scheme.

Kevin Rudd made a guest appearance, bearing an Australian Taxpayer-funded cheque to Australia's biggest polluters for $16.4 billion – the amount of subsidies that will be awarded under the government's emissions trading scheme in its first five years.

500 people attended the climate rally in Perth on June 13. Organisers were pleased with the turn-out and will continue organising future events. The next meeting on of the Safe Climate Coalition on July 4 is to plan the next steps in this campaign.