Climate activists met NSW MPs arriving at State Parliament for a caucus meeting with christmas cheer and lumps of coal on Wednesday 17 December.

The coal signified the government’s addiction to coal, the number one cause of global warming.

Recently the NSW government signed an aggreement to build another coal loader at Newcastle to double the amount of coal exported from NSW.  Already coal ships are anchored up and down the NSW coast.

New coal mines are being approved and there are plans to build two new coal-fired power stations at Lithgow and the Upper Hunter Valley.

To continue to expand the coal industry when we know how urgently we need to act to avoid catastrophic climate change is utterly negligent.  The NSW government needs to commit to a moratorium on new coal-fired power stations and plan a transition away from dirty coal to clean energy technologies such as wind, solar and geothermal.

Photo: Annaliese Frank

This year’s Walk Against Warming takes place in the middle of the Copenhagen global climate negotiations as part of a global day of action.

It is important to get as many people there as possible to put pressure on Kevin Rudd and other world leaders to agree to strong action on climate change.

You can help!

We need volunteers to help promote Walk Against Warming.

• Letterboxing – go for a walk in your neighbourhood and put Walk Against Warming leaflets in letterboxes
• Postering – put up some posters on poles in your local shopping strip, or ask your local shops to display the poster in their window.
• Street stalls – run a street stall at your local shopping centre on saturday morning and hand out leaflets
• Train stations – an effective way to reach people is to hand them a leaflet as they arrive at the train station on their way to work (they have plenty of time to read the leaflet waiting for the train).

We can supply leaflets and posters.  Please email Max - mphillips@nccnsw.org.au or phone: 9279 2466.

You can pick up leaflets and posters at the Nature Conservation Council’s office

Level 2, 301 Kent Street Sydney (9am – 6pm)

We can deliver or post leaflets and posters to you (if you are unable to pick up).

12.30pm, Saturday 14 November 2009

Sydney Townhall

Climate action campaigners will march on the NSW Labor party conference this Saturday in protest at shock plans to build new coal-fired power stations in the state.

Speakers will include NSW Greens MP John Kaye, Steve Campbell, the head of campaigns at Greenpeace Australia-Pacific and NTEU state secretary Genevieve Kelly.

Demonstrators will gather at 12.30pm at Sydney Town hall this Saturday November 14 and march to the Entertainment Centre, arriving there outside the NSW Labor conference at 1.30pm.