‘Protect Our Future, Not Gas’ National Day of Action (online event)

The Narrabri Gas Project has just been approved on the beautiful land of the Gomeroi people, in NSW. A food producing region and water catchment for the Great Artesian Basin.

The Federal government wants a COVID gas-led recovery providing millions of dollars to the gas industry toward infrastructure including pipelines.

They’re proposing to develop gas basins on the land of the Alawa people of Minyerri, in Beetaloo Basin in the NT, and North Bowen and Galilee Basin in Queensland.

They have promoted taxpayers paying millions for a gas-fired power plant in the Hunter Valley and a gas trading hub at Wallumbilla in Queensland.

Natural gas is not a clean transitional energy. It is a dangerous polluting fossil fuel – predominantly made of methane which has a global warming potential up to 84-86 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

The fossil fuel Industry predicted the global warming we are now seeing, as a consequence of fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, along with the substantial climatic impacts that would occur after a 1°C temperature rise.

The United Nations (IPCC) has said that we are already seeing the consequences of 1°C warming ‘through more extreme weather, rising sea levels and diminishing Arctic sea ice, among other changes’. We have already endured unprecedented bushfires and floods, heat, drought, and multiple coral bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef.

Countries such as Australia are meant to lead the way dealing with the climate crisis under the Paris Agreement.

We want a renewable and green jobs-led recovery, not a gas-led one.

Join the National Day of Action on 28 Nov 2020 with a COVID safe action that you can photograph or video to send us and then join us on at an Online Virtual Rally.

Forty community groups are co-hosting/supporting the National Day of Action so far. If you are a community group that would like to co-host/support the 28th November 2020 event please let us know.

Please RSVP at the following link to receive further ongoing information: https://actionnetwork.org/…/national-day-of-action-28th…

National Day of Action demands:

1. Respect and support any First Nations community opposition to coal seam gas mining and fracking.
2. Stop using public funds for gas or other fossil fuel projects.
3. Support 100% renewables by 2030
4. Support Solar Schools
5. Support a renewables Million Jobs Plan

#StandTogether to #ProtectOurFutureNotGas to #BuildBackBetter #BeyondFossilFuels
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NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION CO-HOST/SUPPORTERS SO FAR:
North West Alliance
Knitting Nannas Against Gas
Knitting Nannas Against Gas Lismore
Knitting Nannas Hunter Loop
Greenpeace
Wilderness Society
Friends of the Earth
Nature Conservation Council (NCC)
Youth For Change
Fridays 4 Future Online
Fridays For Future Australia Persistent Presence
Australian Parents For Climate Action
Water for Rivers
GetUp Sydney – Grayndler
GetUp Central Coast Action Group
GetUp South Australia
Hills 4 Climate Action
Gloucester Sustainable Futures
Groundswell Gloucester
Surfrider Foundation
Doctors for the Environment Australia
Coalfields for Climate Action
Climate Reality Leaders
Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC)
Stop Adani Inner West Sydney
Stop Adani Redfern
Extinction Rebellion Newcastle
Oakey Coal Action Alliance (OCAA)
Darling Downs Environment Council
Western Downs Alliance
Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action
ParraCAN
Sustainable Hour
Centre for Climate Safety
Dubbo Environment Group
OCEAN (Otway Climate Emergency Action Network)
Extinction Rebellion Geelong
Extinction Rebellion Westside Melbourne
Climate Action Armidale
Wellspring Community
Kariong Eco Garden
Climate Change Balmain-Rozelle
Geelong Sustainability
Frack Free Geelong
Armidale Action on Coal Seam Gas and Mining
Gas Free Geelong

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REFERENCES:

Federal Governments Gas led Recovery
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/gas-fired-recovery

Resurgence of Zombie Gas licences
https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/…/zombie-gas…/…

Global Warming Potential
Table 8.7, Chapter 8, IPCC AR5.

Paris Agreement
https://unfccc.int/…/the…/what-is-the-paris-agreement

IPCC Press Release
https://www.ipcc.ch/…/2018/11/pr_181008_P48_spm_en.pdf