From @jaraparilla on twitter: Washington

From @jaraparilla on twitter:

Washington Post editorial threatens to cancel 1/3rd of Ecuador’s foreign sales ($10b) if #Assange gets asylum:

http://t.co/51sW4XA1 via @kgosztola

Western Australia a Carbon Emissions Catastrophe – Robin Chapple

Robin Chapple MLC

Member for the Mining and Pastoral Region

MEDIA RELEASE

Western Australia a Carbon Emissions Catastrophe

21 June 2012

On the eve of Australia’s Prime Minister attending the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, research recently released by the Greens WA spokesperson on Climate Change, Robin Chapple MLC, shows that WA is tracking ‘off the scale’ for carbon emissions increases.

The findings of this research are disturbing. In the coming decade, when we should be constraining the growth of carbon emissions and making clear plans to reduce our future emissions, WA is instead set to increase its greenhouse gas emissions vastly and rapidly.

Western Australia’s emissions in 1990, the benchmark year for Kyoto Agreements, were 52.0 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), and by 2009 this had grown to 69.9 million tonnes.

This new research shows that emissions are now in the region of 85 million tonnes of CO2e per annum. The most worrying finding of this research is that pending industrial development is set to emit a further 83 to 128 million tonnes per annum.

These new projects, if approved and operating at full scale, could see our emissions more than double during the coming decade, and more than triple that of our reporting base year of 1990.

“As the primary regulator of industry in our state, our State Government should play a key role in facilitating the transition from a carbon intensive economy to a low carbon, clean economy,” said Robin Chapple today.

“However the current State Government has no policy on how we will support the Commonwealth in meeting Kyoto and National targets, and it sets no articulated targets of its own.

I consider industrial development left unmeasured and unmonitored, with no clear commitment to disclose emissions profiles, or manage and reduce emissions and energy use, tantamount to negligence on the part of the State and call on this Government to consider future generations before it considers mining profits,” stated Mr Chapple.

For more information or to access the full report please go to: http://www.robinchapple.com/sites/default/files/GHG%20Estimates%20WA%202012%20Final.pdf, and for a copy of the WA Emissions Estimates Inventory go to: http://www.robinchapple.com/sites/default/files/Carbon%20Emissions%20Inventory%20Major%20Resource%20Projects%20%E2%80%93%20AGEIS%202012%20data.pdf

Also available is a google map illustrating emitting industries and their ‘per annum’ emissions at: http://ow.ly/awKt0.

Robin Chapple MLC will be available on the steps of Parliament House for interview / statement with copies of the report at 9.30am, Thursday 21stJune, 2012.

For more information please contact Robin Chapple on 9486 8255

All the best

Robin Chapple MLC

Member for the Mining and Pastoral Region

PO Box 94, West Perth WA 6872

41 Havelock Street, West Perth. WA 6005

Phone: Robin.Chapple | Freecall: 1800 138 610

http://robinchapple.com/

pls RT & chip in, every $ counts for @witnessorg crew $4K needed to expose forced evictions in #Mexico

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Did you know that entire communities in Mexico are at risk of disappearing because of dam projects? In the three communities we are currently working with alone, more than 40,000 people are facing the threat of forced eviction. This means loss of homes and jobs, inadequate access to schools, hospitals, infrastructure and more. We’ve just found out that this November, a panel of international human rights experts will be visiting Mexico to lead a special hearing on the issue of dams and human rights violations. This is a crucial moment for dam-affected communities to use an international spotlight to pressure the Mexican government and call for accountability for their role in imposing these projects. Right now, we now have an unexpected opportunity to bring our local partners together for a three-day intensive training to create a video for the hearing that tells the larger story about dams, forced evictions and human rights in Mexico. But we have a gap in funding. We need your help to raise $4,000 in the next 48 hours to make this training happen. We are lucky – all we need is $4,000 to bring ten activists together for three days in August. I will already be in Mexico – so we are saving on airfare and lodging. Thanks to our partners at Habitat International Coalition – Latin America, we are able to secure some of the logistics at little or no cost. We already have the equipment. $4,000 will cover everything else for ten participants: Round trip transportation from around the country (est. $1,800) Three days accommodation and food (est. $1,000) Follow-up and post-production support (est. $1,000) Training materials and supplies for the meeting (est. $200) Please help. Donate today and tell a friend. We need to raise $4,000 in the next 48 hours so that we can seize this opportunity to help our partners tell the Mexican government that we will not stand for forced evictions. This training will not happen without your help. In solidarity, Priscila Neri Program Manager PS. If everyone who received this email gave just $20, we would be able to conduct more than 125 of these trainings. Pretty crazy, huh?

Willi, CECOP youth activist, presenting video proof to the governor of Guerrero (in front of 2,000 people) of human rights violations his community has endured. “Before the workshop, 95% of our videos did not serve to create change” -Past WITNESS Forced Eviction training participant Willi, one of the young activists we trained in Guerrero, Mexico, hadn’t used a camera before coming to our training in 2011. Now he has created three videos, replicated our video advocacy trainings for other affected youth in his community, and helped form a Youth Video Squad that prepared and screened a video to the governor of Guerrero last year.

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