BCCAN has received information from 350.org that as early as next week, French company ENGIE could announce the closure of Australia’s dirtiest coal-fired power station – Hazelwood – in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. According to 350.org: This is a win for the climate and health of the local community, but that’s only half the…
Want to do something to address climate change? Here are some things that you can do on-line to reduce the impact of your dollar on the environment. Banking: Despite their greenspeak, the big 4 banks, Westpac CBA, NAB and ANZ invest heavily in the development and sale of fossil fuels. Write to your bank…
Dr David Goldney, distinguished ecologist and member of BCCAN, has sent an Open Letter to the Premier, Mike Baird, on the Native Vegetation Act. See file attachment.
TO HELP THE FUNDRAISING EFFORT, GO TO THIS LINK: https://www.gofundme.com/BathurstRooProject By Tracy Sorensen It’s Spring, a time when yellow daffodils and wattles are joined by the pink blossoms of the plum trees. Magpies are swooping, other birds are feathering their nests. On the human front, there’s the build-up to the annual car race, where the…
By Laurana Smith When we think of rising sea levels linked to Climate Change we generally think of the threat to coastal real estate and to agricultural land due to flooding, but there is another threat: pollution. Along the world’s densely populated coastlines, associated with all the activities of our industrial society, there are many…
Bathurst Community Climate Action Network (BCCAN) is pleased to announce the guest speaker at its upcoming Annual General Meeting, to be held at 6pm on Tuesday, October 18 in the Courtyard Room at the Bathurst RSL. Dr. Steb Fisher has a BA, MA and DPhil in Chemistry from Oxford; he spent eleven years with…
BCCAN’s 32nd Newsletter, edited by Publicity Officer Laurana Smith.
By Tracy Sorensen The 1969 moon landing is close to my heart. I grew up under the beneficent gaze of a giant communications dish in Carnarvon in the north west of Western Australia. At the time of the moon landing, my town did not yet have television but we were also at the very cutting…
BCCAN members, supporters and the wider community may be interested to attend a seminar on energy futures given by Dr Matthew Ives, research scientist at the University of Oxford, and his father Mike Ives, an expert in energy infrastructure. We have the opportunity to hear from these two experts because they are the brother…
By Tracy Sorensen Last Saturday I watched as a group of residents from Napoleon Reef tied strips of red, white, blue, black and yellow fabric to old gum trees. It was an exquisite sunny winter day that brought out the colours lifting in the gentle breeze. They were there to say goodbye to the mature…