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Curious, what did (or didn't) those organizations do? I donate to some of them and would gladly change that by donating elsewhere if there is good reason not to.

Also, agreed. Australia is a mess. I grew up in Newcastle, living in Toronto Canada now and love looking at where our energy comes from: https://www.cns-snc.ca/media/ontarioelectricity/ontarioelect...

No coal, beautiful!



Generally campaign hard against nuclear and hydro. There hasn't been any new hydro in Australia since The Wilderness Society blocked the Franklin Dam project[1].

I'll admit that no new hydro is arguably a good thing for certain aspects of sustainability, but it could be argued that new hydro is better than new coal or gas. That's sort of a false dichotomy because there are other options:

An in-principle agreement has been reached to build a new 144MW wind farm in central Tasmania[2], the first new wind project in the state in almost a decade[3].

The Franklin Dam project was to be 180MW, with arguable much greater capacity factor than wind.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Dam_controversy

2. http://www.goldwindaustralia.com/aurora-energy-goldwind-anno...

3. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-07/new-$300m-wind-farm-fo...




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