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What's on in September? Victorian Climate Action Network News What’s on in September? Environment Victoria and GetUp! campaign Environment Victoria have released a new report Sun Blocks and Wind Breaks – 25 attacks on clean energy by the Baillieu and Napthine Governments. It got a great run in The Age. The Coalition government argue that it’s the Federal Government's job to reduce emissions and behind the scenes they have been campaigning for the weakening of the federal Renewable Energy Target. Environment Victoria have already sent a list of election questions to the major political parties and are awaiting replies. » Read more. A big welcome to four new Victorian on-the ground GetUp! organisers campaigning in Prahran (three-way contest between Liberals, Labor and Greens) and Albert Park; Frankston, and other bayside seats (marginal Labor/Liberals); Geelong seats (marginal Labor/Liberals) and the universities. Environment Victoria and GetUp! are funding a series of advertisements and billboards like this one: Climate science postcards Unfortunately many climate science guides, encourage the view that we can still keep on burning fossil fuels for a decade or two. The VCAN Science Sign-on working group has been meeting looking at ways of disseminating the message that we have zero carbon budget remaining. The climate graph postcard is off to be printed tomorrow and is available for groups to order. Contact [email protected]. Warburton Renewable Energy Target review The Warburton review report is now released and the federal government is going to take a month to consider their recommendations. The review was stacked with fossil fuel interests and was under pressure from Abbott to finish off the RET. They have obligingly come up with two alternatives – close the RET to new entrants or close the RET to new entrants unless electricity demand increases (currently falling). » Read more Monster Climate Petition The Monster Climate Petition was initiated by Judith Brett and the Victorian Women’s Trust. It has been taken up by grassroots groups including the Climate Guardian Angels. The name of the petition is a reference to the Monster Petition in support of voting rights for women, presented to federal parliament in 1891, which is on display inside Parliament House. The organisers glued sheets bearing about 30,000 signatures onto a 260-metre-long roll of fabric that they carried into parliament on a cardboard spindle. The Monster Climate Petition is a paper and pen petition in a format which allows it to be tabled in parliament, unlike all the on-line petitions. It will be presented at the time of the G20 meeting in November as a way of putting additional pressure on the Abbott government to drop their opposition to addressing climate change at the G20 meeting. » Download it here Big Banks petition 350.org is calling on the Big Four banks to rule out funding expansion of the Abbot Point coal port and the construction of the associated Galilee Basin coal mine and rail infrastructure. » Sign the petition In the past month, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition have met with 300 Westpac branch managers, and staff say they do not want their company to finance Galilee projects. » Read more Transport forums Want to have your say on public transport and the East-West Link? The Melbourne Public Transport Forum and Leader Newspapers have organised a series of town hall style forums about transport where you can meet candidates face-to-face and ask questions. Forums will be held Yarra, Darebin, Glen Eira and Frankston this week. Details in the Coming Events list below. Campaigning in key electorates Brunswick. Come and hear Professor Garnaut at a forum on Power to the People – reclaiming control of electricity in Victoria on Wednesday 3 September – see coming events. Street stalls with the climate science postcard in coming weeks. There will be two election forums one on 17 September organised by the Public Transport Users Association and the council on transport and one on 7 October organised by the Uniting Church. Climate Action Moreland will be asking climate questions at the forums and distributing Vote Climate scorecards in November. Melbourne and Richmond. Yarra Climate Action Now are working with Public Transport not Traffic and the Public Transport Users Association to oppose the East-West Link. Come to the transport forum on 8 September and make your views known. Yarra Climate Action Now will also be distributing Vote Climate scorecards in November Northcote. Darebin Climate Action Now will soon be letter-boxing 28,000 houses with a postcard showing the graph from David Spratt’s presentation at the Breakthrough 2014 conference. Help appreciated. There will be a climate action election forum on 12 November. Prahran. GetUp! held a well-attended launch of their climate campaign in Prahran with 45 potential volunteers attending. GetUp! organiser in Prahran, Anthony Mockler, has experience working on Obama’s campaign team. This week, there’s a volunteer phonebank on Wednesday night, a campaign brainstorming session on Saturday afternoon and a Letters to the Editor party on Sunday afternoon. If you would like to help out in a seat which is a three way contest between the sitting Liberal member and the ALP and the Greens, contact Anthony on 0466 955236. Frankston and bayside. Door-knocking, street stalls and film nights continue with lots of action around the Frankston Enviro-Hub shop-front. The dates are below in the coming events listings. For bayside events contact Jane Stabb at [email protected] new bayside GetUp! Organiser, Claire Boland [email protected] Frankston Climate Action Group now have a Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/FrankstonClimateAction?refid=13. Environment Victoria have been campaigning hard to get Geoff Shaw to support the retention of the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target, including this great sign. Forest Hills and eastern Melbourne and the west. The Environment Victoria Eastside team has held two doorknocks in the last month, and got 50 people to pledge for the environment in two days. They are starting to hold street stalls in the Forest Hill electorate and have their first one planned for at Brentford Square on Saturday, September 13. There will be fortnightly door knocking in Forest Hills in coming weeks and stalls in the western suburbs (Altona, Seddon, Point Cook). Contact EV’s Claire: [email protected]. Eastern Climate Action Melbourne are holding a candidates’ forum on 30 September. For these events and lots more, check the list of events below. South Barwon, Geelong and western Victoria. Yes 2 Renewables and the Australian Wind Alliance held a standing-room – only forum on renewable energy and jobs at Portland. yes2renewables.org/2014/08/25/government-policy-threatens-victorias-renewables-energy-jobs-forum-told Yes2Renewables and Geelong groups are continuing kitchen table conversations about the Geelong region’s energy future. » Find out more Corangamite (Geelong region) may be the location for the next of the marginal seats events being conducted by the Solar Council in protest against the threat to the RET. This campaign has already riled Greg Hunt who has been trading insults with the head of the Council. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/22/greg-hunt-clashes-with-solar-council-ceo-over-marginal-seat-campaign Dynamic local campaigner, Dan Cowdell has been recruited as GetUp! organiser in the Geelong region and recently held a successful Climate Change Brainstorm to Action in Geelong. The local team are working on taking the ‘Vote Clean’ message of climate change and renewables out to the general public in the months up to the election in November. » Read more Macedon. Three years ago Premier Ted Baillieu imposed a blanket ban on wind energy in Macedon. The laws killed off a community wind farm near Woodend – on the other side of the electorate from community-owned Hepburn Wind Farm. The photo at the start of this newsletter was taken at the border between the ‘go’ and ‘no go’ zones. Yes2Renewables and partners, the Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group, are conducting a survey on Macedon's energy future. Riddles Creek and the Macedon Ranges area are holding a film night and community conversation about the region's energy future on Thursday 11 September. Details in coming events list. A liberal Party MP, representing state energy minister Russell Northe at the Portland forum, indicated that the Coalition may be open to allowing wind farms with strong community support to proceed. Yes 2 Renewables are seeking confirmation that this is official government policy. Will be interesting to see if this is confirmed. September events Tuesday 2 September, 6:00pm – 7:30pm. Super Switch Launch. Organised by 350.org Australia and Market Forces at the Deakin Edge, Federation Square. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/super-switch-launch- tickets-12500022905 Wednesday 3 September from 6:30pm (drinks) to 9:00 pm in Brunswick. Power to the People – reclaiming control of electricity in Victoria. Merri Creek Residents Group and the Moreland Energy Foundation Limited (MEFL) forum with Prof. Ross Garnaut and other speakers. Register to attend here. At Brunswick Town Hall, Sydney Rd (corner Glenlyon Road), Brunswick. Wednesday 3 September. GetUp! volunteer phone-banking in Prahran. Contact [email protected]. Wednesday 3 September. Korumburra unconventional gas information night. Thursday 4 September. Prof Tim Flannery with OpenLabor and LEAN: What now for the climate campaign? A frank and full discussion on the future of the campaign to halt climate change in Australia and around the world. City of Melbourne Bowls Club, Flagstaff Gardens. Free but book at www.eventbrite.com.au/e/prof-tim-flannery-with-openlabor-and-lean-what-now-for-the-climate-campaign- tickets-12705633893. Friday 5 September, 5.30pm – 6.30pm in Wangaratta.
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