Environment Victoria

Leaked documents reveal the gas industry is pressuring Victorian MPs behind closed doors & threatening to run a fact-free scare campaign 😡 Phasing out gas slashes household energy bills. But the owners of the gas network want to keep you hooked on expensive gas that pollutes your home ... just to protect their profits 🤑

We’re deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Tim Read.

Tim was Victorian Greens Brunswick MP for the last eight years and a local GP and researcher. Tim was a tireless advocate for climate action, active transport and public health.

He was widely respected and always ready to listen. We will remember his integrity, intelligence and kindness. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

Tim asked that instead of flowers donations be made to Friends of the Earth Melbourne and the Inner North Community Foundation.

https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/

https://www.innernorthfoundation.org.au/

Power is growing in Melbourne's West

On Tuesday night, 270 community leaders from 70 organisations came together in Werribee for the first Our West, Our Future Listening assembly, and we couldn’t be more proud.

Multicutual and faith communities, First Nation leaders, unions, neighborhood houses, environment groups, community originations and advocates came together to listen, share stories and talk about the future of the West.

Thank you to everyone who attended, volunteered and made the event happen. This truly was a collaboration for our community, by our community. We also thank all our core partners:

Real Deal Geelong
Wyndham Park Community Centre
GenWest
Heeryesu
Indian Care

We also want to thank the decision makers who were able to make it (and hopefully will make it to the next) for your commitments

John Lister - Labor for Werribee
Brittney Henderson
Dr Joe Garra
Andrew Elsebury
Venkat Ram Upparlapalle - Liberal for Tarneit
Reece Clark - Liberal for Werribee

Together, we are just getting started. To stay in touch:


The night launched Our West Listens, a campaign to hold 1000 conversations across Melbournes’ west by April 2027, hearing directly from communities about what matters most and what we can take action on together.

Join our online post-assembly update to hear what happened, and what comes next.

Tuesday 13 October, 6.30–7.30pm
Online via Zoom
Register: https://events.humanitix.com/owof-octupdate

Environment Victoria stands in solidarity with workers at Parks Victoria taking industrial action for better pay ✊🏽🌲

For nearly 15 years, the hard working rangers, environmental scientists, and administrators of Parks Victoria have been held back by wages and conditions that are below other public sector workers. These are the people who manage the state’s extensive public lands, parks, and reserves, and ensure our natural environment is protected for generations of Victorians to enjoy.

These workers are the first responders in natural disasters, but last in line for public sector wages. For too long, public sector workers at Parks Victoria have been underpaid and overworked.

Here's what you can do to support Parks Victoria workers >>

👀 Keep up to date with upcoming rallies and actions by following CPSU Victoria

✍🏻 Sign the petition calling for better pay and fully funded national parks: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fair-pay-for-parks-vic

Environment Victoria applauds the Greens decision to back the INFM method, a vital pathway to secure forest protections, end native forest logging, and create the Great Koala National Park in NSW 🌲🐨

The agreement between the Greens and the Federal Government also delivers crucial new safeguards to the INFM method.

Thank you to all the people who took action to help secure this, in solidarity with our comrades in the NSW conservation movement, and frontline forest campaigners 👏🏾👏🏽

Check out Nature NSW media release here>> www.nature.org.au/forest_protection_pathway_secured

Photo credit: Graham Palmer

Expensive gas and old, clunky coal power 😐 This is the plan the Victorian Liberals and One Nation have for Victoria. But it comes with a hefty price tag, and you’ll pay the bill 💸

We worked with the experts at Nexa Advisory to find out exactly how much delaying clean energy projects would cost, and Victorian households could be slugged with an extra $472 on their power bills.

But things get much worse if they follow through with their plans to scrap critical transmission links! See the report here envict.org/cost-of-delay

If we stop building clean energy, Victoria will be stuck burning more methane gas (the most expensive form of power) and relying more on old coal power stations that are past their use-by date. Yallourn is over 50 years old, and since 2020 its four generating units have averaged more than 8,000 hours of total downtime each year!

Backed by a boom in battery storage, renewable energy now generates almost half of Victoria’s electricity, and wholesale electricity prices fell 60% in the past year.

Yet One Nation (backed by billionaire Gina Rinehart) and the Victorian Liberals want to throw away that progress just as we are starting to see the benefits.

So Victoria has a choice.

One path means cheaper, cleaner energy and less reliance on old and polluting energy.

The other means higher bills, more pollution and throwing away our progress

👉 See the full report envict.org/cost-of-delay