Replace Hazelwood
URGENT UPDATE: Right now we’re on the brink of securing a historic deal to Replace Hazelwood. If the deal goes ahead, it will be the first time a polluting power station is shut down in Australia for pollution and climate change reasons. But now, we urgently need your help to get this deal across the line by the 30 June deadline. Please, take action now and show your support for replacing Hazelwood >
Imagine a wealthy state like Victoria being home to one of the dirtiest power station in the industrialized world. You’d think that was impossible wouldn’t you? Unfortunately its not, which is why we’re campaigning for the closure of Hazelwood power station and its replacement with cleaner, greener alternatives.
Hazelwood power station is one dirty brown coal burning beast. It pumps out over 16 million tonnes of greenhouse pollution each year. That’s almost 15 percent of Victoria’s greenhouse gas emissions and 3 percent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, all on its own. And it uses a whopping 27 billion litres of water a year. That’s almost as much water as the whole of Melbourne uses in a month! Yep. And that’s just the start of it. Get even more dirty details on this old clunker
The good news is that there are alternatives to polluting coal. And we can Replace Hazelwood with clean, safe and reliable energy for the future, and we can do it within the next two years.
We’ve released a report that shows how Hazelwood can be replaced within two years using a combination of renewable energy, energy efficiency and as a transition fuel, gas. All while maintaining energy security, cutting Victoria's greenhouse pollution by 12 percent and creating more jobs than Hazelwood currently provides. How good is that!
Check out the Replace Hazelwood report here
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Read our analysis of the government negotiations to Replace Hazelwood >
Read what we said about the state election outcomes for Hazelwood >
Watch our YouTube VIDEO from when we launched the campaign. View it
Listen to our rally promo on 3cr (pretty sweet huh)
Check out our advert published in the Melb Weekly Times and Port Philip Weekly on Wednesday, 3 November 2010. View it here
Watch our footage of our Punt Road Billboard going up! Check it out
We've released a report that shows how Hazelwood can be replaced as soon as the end of 2012. All while maintaining energy security, cutting Victoria's greenhouse pollution by 12 percent and creating more jobs than Hazelwood currently provides. Check it out
A number of other studies have shown how Hazelwood’s electricity generation could be replaced by cleaner sources. For instance see Towards Victoria’s clean energy future
New analysis shows that little progress has been made over the past decade in reducing Victoria’s reliance on polluting coal-fired electricity. Get the dirt here and check out our release
Visit the Replace Hazelwood website
Climate, land, biodiversity face biggest cuts
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Adam Morton, The Age
Spending on environmental programs will be cut by $130.6 million next financial year - the biggest reduction for any department.
The cuts to the Department of...
moreBudget continues Baillieu Government’s record of environmental failure
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Environment Victoria has described today State budget as “deeply disappointing” and said it continues the Baillieu Government’s record of...
moreUncertain future for plant
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Louis Nelson, Latrobe Valley Express
Latrobe City remains upbeat about the future of HRL's proposed Morwell dual gas-fired power station...
morePilbara plan for Victoria
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Adam Morton, The Age
The Latrobe Valley could be transformed into a mining export hub on the scale of the Pilbara or the Hunter Valley thanks to new a href="http://environmentvictoria.org.au/content/...
morePlan to head off protests on coal
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Tom Arup, The Age
The Baillieu government is working on a long-term strategy to try to head off objections to its plans to developa href="http://environmentvictoria.org.au/content/problem-brown-...
moreVictorian power stations get carbon tax compensation
Friday, 30 March
ABC News
Six Victorian coal-fired power generators will get the bulk of $1 billion of Federal Government funding aimed at helping them deal with the introduction of the carbon tax./p...
moreLion's share for coal plants before the carbon tax bites
Saturday, 31 March 2012
David Wroe, The Age
Victoria's dirtiest coal-fired power plants have snared the lion's share of $1 billion in energy industry carbon tax compensation - a...
moreVictoria winds back its carbon reduction target
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Alison Savage, ABC News
New power stations built in Victoria will not be subject to carbon emissions limits after the State Government decided to scrap the restrictions.
The...
moreNo emission limit on new coal plants
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Tom Arup, The Age
The Baillieu government has dropped an election commitment to bring in limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new coal-fired power plants.
The decision by Energy...
moreVic government dumps carbon target
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
9 News
The clean energy industry is being wiped out in Victoria by the Baillieu government, which has axed the state's 20 per cent greenhouse gas emissions reduction target, critics say.
An...
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Gillard's clash
with coal power tricks
With the clock ticking towards the federal government’s June 30 deadline for contracts for closure, the brinkmanship is beginning in earnest.
In just eight weeks the government needs to conclude negotiations and sign contracts for the...
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Is ending our addiction to coal
really that outrageous?
In the past days the issue of Australian coal exports made news headlines with the emergence of a funding proposal (involving Greenpeace...
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Congratulations
On another massive year
Regardless of what happens over coming years, 2011 will go down as a major turning point in Australia’s action on climate change.
At a community, policy and political level the campaigns and outcomes delivered this year will have a...
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Getting closure
on dirty power
Last Friday the federal government called for expressions of interest to retire up to 2000MW of coal generation by 2020. The call comes as part of the government’s "...
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Our volunteers
think we're great!
We'll that's what they said at our volunteer night last week, although admittedly we did supply them with alcohol and snacks before hand…
We had 20 or so people come along, some of them existing volunteers keen to meet each other and...
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- Coal decision a reprieve for the climate |
- Rudd climate backflip raises pressure to replace Hazelwood |
- NEW REPORT! Fast-tracking Victoria’s clean energy future to replace Hazelwood Power Station |
- International Power Australia's submission on the CPRS Green Paper |
- Replacing Australia’s dirtiest power station could fill climate policy vacuum, says report |
- Calling all Hoddle St Traffic – Help create a clean energy future! |
- Hazelwood asbestos claims deserve full investigation |
- Climate change failure claims another leader |
- Hazelwood moves welcome but complete replacement necessary |
- Call for Brumby and Gillard to unite to completely replace Hazelwood |
