«It would be hard to make this stuff up. Australia’s legendarily
irresponsible mining industry has a new plan: while the planet faces
catastrophic climate change, build the world’s largest coal mining complex, and
then build a shipping lane to that port straight through the greatest
ecological treasure we have - the Great Barrier Reef!
This is a terrible idea with devastating consequences, and the investor
group Aurizon that’s backing it know it. They’re getting cold feet, and we
might be able to push them over the edge, and kill the project. One of the main
potential funders has even donated to climate activism! If one million of us express our head-shaking
disbelief at this crazy project in the next few days, we can help get Aurizon
to pull funding and maybe even persuade the Australian PM to step in.»
This is what Avaaz is for,
let’s raise a voice for common sense:
«The Great Barrier Reef -- the largest
living organism on earth and home to a quarter of all the species that live in
the world’s oceans -- has slowly been dying for years. It’s lost half its coral
in the past three decades and that rate is only accelerating. Climate change is
one cause, but so is Australia ’s booming mining
industry. The german magazine Der Spiegel reported that “if current trends
continue, the unthinkable could happen: the Great Barrier Reef could die.”
And yet, the mining industry plans to build massive new ports at a
complex called Abbot Point in Northeast Australia (right by the Reef) to make
it easier to get the coal it’s mining out to the world. Not only would that
mean doubling the number of ships that pass by the Reef each year and ripping
up to 3 million cubic meters of material from the fragile sea bed, but if all
the coal from the proposed mines this would enable is burned, it would be three
times Australia's current climate pollution -- hurtling us faster towards the
point of no return. The investors are
meeting now to decide what to do and the Australian Environment Minister will
choose whether to approve the project in the next two weeks. Our voices can
signal to all of them to block this disaster, especially to Australian Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd if he hopes to maintain his global reputation in the lead-up
to his re-election bid.»
They’re all deciding what to do now. Sign this urgent petition and share
it with everyone you know to stop the Great Barrier train wreck:
«The Avaaz community has been fighting to save the unparalleled beauty
of the reef for years. Last year, Avaaz members threatened a public US Bank
when they were set to invest in Reef destruction. And hundreds of thousands of
Avaaz members sent messages to the Australian Environment Minister to help win
the largest marine reserve in the world. Let’s do it again and put the reef out
of reach of these profiteering plunderers.»
PS - Many Avaaz campaigns are started by members of our community. It's
easy to get started - click to start yours now and win on any issue - local,
national or global: http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/start_a_petition/?bgMYedb&v=23917
SOURCES:
'Death By a Thousand Cuts': Coal Boom Could Destroy Great Barrier Reef
(Spiegel)
GVK's Australia coal project 'a quagmire, not an investment' says report
(The Times of India)
Report- Stranded: Alpha Coal Project in Australia’s Galilee Basin
(IEEFA)
GVK rejects claim Alpha is 'stranded' (The Age)
Abbott Point Coal Mine Map (Greenpeace)
SOURCE:AVAAZ.ORG
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