Gardens of Stone: In Focus Photographic Exhibition Weekend of 17 – 18 September 2016 Opens Saturday 10AM, closes Sunday 2PM FREE Award ceremony and refreshments from Saturday 2PM The New Law Building, University of Sydney In 2015, groups of professional and non-professional photographers crossed the Blue Mountains on various expeditions into the rugged landscapes of the Gardens of Stone. An area…
By Tracey Carpenter BCCAN is part of a nationwide network of people engaged on the frontline of climate impacts and the push for action to make our communities safe from extreme weather. Mid north coast climate action group, CCA, president Harry Creamer had this to say about the horrifying east coast storms this week. “Every…
Farmers and environmentalists were once seen as sitting on opposite sides of the barbed wire fence, but that is rapidly changing. The campaign against coal seam gas, or fracking, has seen so called “greenies” and farmers sitting side by side at the barricades trying to hold off mining interests that would alienate prime agricultural land.…
The following is the speech given by Cr Monica Morse at the February 17 meeting of Bathurst Council during a discussion about the proposal by the Western Australian Regis gold mining company to divert Bathurst’s treated effluent water to a proposed gold mine in Blayney. The Council voted to defer its decision until the company…
Peter Drinkall of the Lithgow Environment Group has written an article giving background on the campaign to save the Macquarie River. You can download the PDF file that appears on this page.
Chris & Mary Marshall have now retired to the south coast. They will be sorely missed by environmentalists in Bathurst. You can read Chris’s outstanding paper on the Bathurst landscape by downloading the PDF.
EFFICIENCY: Bob Hill (BCCAN), Peter Harris (CSU) and Grant Christopherson (OEH) with an electricity substation on the Bathurst CSU campus. Pic by John Merkel. By Tracy Sorensen Heavy metal band AC/DC celebrated high voltage rock n roll, but when it comes to the environment, too much voltage can be a bad thing. Bathurst Community Climate…
Bathurst Community Climate Action Network (BCCAN) is helping to pave the way to a cleaner, greener, energy usage by supporting a voltage reduction trial at Charles Sturt University (CSU). If the project is successful, it will serve as a model for other large electricity clients through the central west and beyond. See media release.
Download the BCCAN media release about the upcoming 2016 Federal Elections here.
With the double-dissolution Federal election expected to take place on July 2, Bathurst Community Climate Action Network president Tracey Carpenter has called for all Calare candidates across the political spectrum to put climate change front and centre as an election issue. With shocking new evidence of climate change occurring at an even faster rate than…