A real chance to protect forests from a rising threat

A real chance to protect forests from a rising threat

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Right now the Australian government is asking for your view on whether wood chipping and burning Australia’s native forests in power plants should be considered a form of renewable energy. Will you add your name to the Wilderness Society's submission telling the government a very firm NO on this question?

To solve the climate crisis, there needs to be more renewable energy. Renewable energy sources need to genuinely be low emissions and should not worsen the biodiversity crisis. 

Australia’s forests and amazing forest-dependent wildlife are still recovering from the catastrophic Black Summer fires of 2019-20. Despite this ...

Right now the Australian government is asking for your view on whether wood chipping and burning Australia’s native forests in power plants should be considered a form of renewable energy. Will you add your name to the Wilderness Society's submission telling the government a very firm NO on this question?

To solve the climate crisis, there needs to be more renewable energy. Renewable energy sources need to genuinely be low emissions and should not worsen the biodiversity crisis. 

Australia’s forests and amazing forest-dependent wildlife are still recovering from the catastrophic Black Summer fires of 2019-20. Despite this, and the increasing extinction crisis, some companies are eyeing off the chance to turn precious forests into wood chips and then incinerate them in the name of renewable energy. Trashing unique and complex forest ecosystems is neither sustainable nor ethical and should never ever be considered ‘renewable’.

We would like to include your name in a long list of Australians to powerfully demonstrate the widespread community opposition to power plants being fed from the destruction of forests. Please add your name today!

 

Image: Courtesy of GECO | Rob Blakers

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Historically, a federal Labor government established in law a protection from this menace but the subsequent Liberal and National government ripped it up. Together, we can apply pressure on the government to put that protection back in place once more. Add your name today!

You’ll be adding your name to say:

  • Burning native forests for power is unequivocally not a source of low-intensity emissions (it can be worse than coal!). No form of power is without an impact, but burning native forests couldn’t be more environmentally damaging. 

  • Forests need to be protected, not pulped and burnt in power plants for electricity. Wildlife is going to need years, if not decades to recover from the catastrophic bushfires they only recently faced. Forests need care and time to recover, not a new wide-scale industrial pressure.

  • The Labor government once enshrined in law a protection from this menace but the previous Liberal and National government ripped it up. The Labor government should once again ensure there will never be incentives to burn native forest for energy.

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