Issue #131 December 2017 chain RRP $5.50 reacti n The National Magazine of Friends of the Earth Australia www.foe.org.au Fighting to protect our forests A just response to climate change displacement Stunning fall in renewable power costs Who’s winning the SA power play? My coal childhood – lessons for Australia Fight to protect Toolangi forest Nano foods Indigenous and grassroots solidarity gathering Nobel Peace Prize born in Australia Friends of the Earth Australia contacts National Liaison Officers: Local Groups Cam Walker, 0419 338 047, FoE Adelaide FoE Far North Queensland Quit Coal: [email protected] c/- CCSA, 111 Franklin St. PO Box 795, Kuranda, Qld, 4881. Catherine Hearse, Phil Evans, [email protected] Adelaide SA 5000. Ph John Glue 0477 771 384 [email protected]. Claire Anderson, 0455 958 270, Richard Smith [email protected] email [email protected] or [email protected] Chloe Aldenhoven, 0432 328 107 [email protected], David Faber, [email protected] www.foefnq.org.au, [email protected] Leigh Ewbank, 0406 316 176, www.adelaide.foe.org.au, facebook: Friends of the Earth FNQ Ursula Alquier, [email protected], www.facebook.com/foe.adelaide [email protected]. FoE Melbourne www.quitcoal.org.au, International Bridgetown Greenbushes PO Box 222, Fitzroy, 3065. www.facebook.com/quitcoalvic, Liaison Officers Friends of the Forest Street address – 312 Smith St, Collingwood [email protected] (03) 9419 8700, 1300 852081 (Freecall) Chloe Aldenhoven (Melb), 0432 328 107 PO Box 461, Bridgetown, WA, 6255. [email protected] River Country Campaign: [email protected], [email protected], www.melbourne.foe.org.au Morgana Russell, 0408 095 470 Emma Harvey (Melb), www.bgff.org.au, www.facebook.com/foemelbourne [email protected], [email protected] Richard Wittenoom 0427 611 511 Franklin Bruinstroop (Bris), 0466 319 323 FoE Brisbane Membership and fundraising coordinator Sustainable Cities Campaign: Rachel Lynskey, 0481 288 211 [email protected], 20 Burke St, Woolloongabba Jemila Rushton, [email protected] [email protected] Pat Simons (Melb), 0415 789 961 (above Reverse Garbage Qld). (03) 9419 8700, 0426 962 506 [email protected], @WeSustainCities PO Box 8227 Woolloongabba, Qld, 4102 Act on Climate: Sam Cossar-Gilbert, ph (07) 3171 2255, Leigh Ewbank, 0406 316 176 Yes 2 Renewables: [email protected] [email protected], [email protected], Pat Simons, 0415 789 961 Madeleine Egan, www.brisbane.foe.org.au [email protected] [email protected] Anti-nuclear & Clean Energy www.yes2renewables.org Peace, anti-nuclear and clean (ACE) Collective: @yes2renewables Financial contributions energy (PACE) campaign: AC Hunter, [email protected]. Tara Stevenson, [email protected] Robin Taubenfeld, 0411 118 737 Jim Green 0417 318 368 FoE Perth (03) 9418 8700, 1300 852 081(Freecall) @PACECollective [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] www.facebook.com/FriendsofthePEarth/ Membership issues Dirt Radio: Pacific & Torres Strait Islands Solidarity: twitter.com/FoEPerth, Melbourne: (03) 9419 8700, 0426 962 506 www.3cr.org.au/dirtradio, Local contact: Karun Cowper Wendy Flannery, 0439 771 692 Jemila Rushton, [email protected] Mondays 10:30am and 0420 714 427 [email protected] [email protected], Other states − see Local Group contacts. Tuesdays 9:30am on 3CR, www.facebook.com/DirtRadio FoE Southwest WA PO Box 6157, South Bunbury, WA, 6230 Economic Justice Collective: Ph Joan Jenkins, 0428 389 087 www.foe.org.au www.melbourne.foe.org.au/economic_justice [email protected] [email protected], 0439 569 289 FoE Sydney Food co-op: www.facebook.com/FoEAustralia Jason Ray, [email protected] [email protected], ph (03) 9417 4382 www.foe.org.au/Sydney Affiliate members Forest Collective: www.facebook.com/foesydney Australian Student Healthy Futures Sarah Day, 0474 735 678 twitter.com/FOESydney Environment Network (ASEN) www.healthyfutures.net.au, [email protected] Callista Barritt 0423 922 275 [email protected], Cameron Villani 0419 799 577 Harry 0417 418 225 National campaigns, projects and spokespeople [email protected], www.asen.org.au, Kate 0438 347 755 www.facebook.com/asen.org.au facebook: Healthy Futures Anti-Nuclear and Clean Energy (ACE): Latin America Indigenous Jim Green (Melb), 0417 318 368 communities solidarity: The Hub Foundation, Castlemaine CounterAct [email protected], Marisol Salinas, [email protected] http://mash.org.au/about-the-hub-foundation Nicola Paris, [email protected] Robin Taubenfeld (Bris), 0411 118 737 Murray-Darling Basin Plan: www.facebook.com/counteractive, [email protected] [email protected], @CounterActOz, www.counteract.org.au 0455 589 065 Morgana Russell, 0408 095 470 Climate Justice: [email protected], Community Foods Cairns In Our Nature Leigh Ewbank, 0406 316 176 Pacific & Torres Strait Islands Patricia Gates and Peter Reay, Kitobo Colobus Project in Kenya. [email protected], ph (07) 4041 5335, Julian Brown, [email protected] Climate Justice: Climate and Health: Wendy Flannery (Bris), 0439 771 692 [email protected], Market Forces www.comfoods.org.au, Harry Jennens, 0417 418 225 [email protected] Julien Vincent, [email protected] [email protected], www.facebook.com/communityfoodscairns/ www.marketforces.org.au, Pesticides & Drinking Water: Earthworker Cooperative @market_forces, Coal: Anthony Amis (Melb), [email protected] Chloe Aldenhoven, 0432 328 107 Dan Musil, 0432 485 869 www.facebook.com/MarketForces Renewable Energy: [email protected] [email protected] Reverse Garbage Queensland Co-op Ltd Pat Simons, 0415 789 961 Zianna Fuad, [email protected] www.earthworkercooperative.com.au 20 Burke Street, Woolloongabba, 4102 [email protected] www.facebook.com/Earthworkercoop Community Energy: Ph 3891 9744 Save the Reef: @Earthworkercoop [email protected] Em Gayfer, [email protected] June Norman (Bris), 0438 169 414 www.reversegarbageqld.com.au GM Free Australia Alliance Divestment and Banks: [email protected], www.facebook.com/reversegarbageqld Jessica Harrison, 0407 307 231 Market Forces, ph (03) 9016 4449 @ReverseGarbageQ Sustainable Cities & Public Transport: [email protected] [email protected], Rachel Lynskey, 0481 288 211 www.gmfreeaustralia.org.au Sustainable Energy Now (WA) Finance & Divestment: [email protected] PO Box 341, West Perth WA 6872. Food Irradiation Watch Julien Vincent, [email protected] @WeSustainCities PO Box 5829, West End, Qld, 4101. www.sen.asn.au, [email protected] [email protected] ph Steve Gates 0400 870 887 Food and Emerging Tech: Trade & TPP: Louise Sales (Tas) 0435 589 579 Sam Castro, 0439 569 289 www.foodirradiationwatch.org Tulele Peisa (PNG) − [email protected], [email protected], ph Robin Taubenfeld 0411 118 737 ‘Sailing the waves on our own’ www.emergingtech.foe.org.au @FIWatch www.tulele-peisa.org Unconventional gas: www.facebook.com/ Director: Ursula Rakova, Ursula Alquier, Goongerah Environment Centre FoEEmergingTechProject www.geco.org.au [email protected], [email protected] Forests: www.facebook.com/GECOEastGippsland ph 0011 675 7399 4806 War and the Environment: Sarah Day, 0474 735 678 [email protected], [email protected], West Mallee Protection (SA) Margaret Pestorius, [email protected] [email protected] ph Ed Hill 0414 199 645 or (03) 5154 0174 [email protected] Robin Taubenfeld, 0411 118 737 Ed Hill, 0414 199 645, [email protected] @eastgippyforest [email protected] Edition #131 − December 2017 Publisher - Friends of the Earth, Australia Chain Reaction ABN 81600610421 FoE Australia ABN 18110769501 www.foe.org.au REGULAR ITEMS youtube.com/user/FriendsOfTheEarthAUS Join Friends of the Earth 4 CONTENTS twitter.com/FoEAustralia FoE Australia News 5 facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-the-Earth- Australia/16744315982 FoE Australia Contacts inside front cover flickr.com/photos/foeaustralia Chain Reaction website CLIMATE MIGRATION www.foe.org.au/chain-reaction Climate migration: No dignity in inaction – Léa Vavasseur 14 Chain Reaction contact details How to respond justly to climate change displaced persons – Claire van Herpen 16 PO Box 222,Fitzroy, Victoria, 3065. Building a cross-party network to support the opening of Australia’s borders 18 email: [email protected] to climate migrants from Pacific Islands– Léa Vavasseur and Wendy Flannery phone: (03) 9419 8700 Chain Reaction team CLIMATE & ENERGY Jim Green, Tessa Sellar Utilities scramble to catch up with stunning fall in renewable energy costs – Tim Buckley 19 Layout & Design Renewable energy targets – Comparing Victoria’s laws with the ACT and California – Luiza Riottot 20 Tessa Sellar Strathbogie Voices: ideas incubator and community energy pivot point – Kate Auty 22 Renewable energy news 24 Printing Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne A year since the SA blackout, who’s winning the high-wattage power play? – Marc Hudson 26 Printed on recycled paper The ‘SA energy crisis’ is a myth peddled by liars – Ronald Brakels 27 Locals initiate climate solutions in Melbourne’s inner north – Claudia Gallois 28 Subscriptions My coal childhood – lessons for Australia from Germany’s mine pit lakes – Anica Niepraschk 29 Six issues (two years) A$33 Twelve