Anvil Hill Alliance

Resources maintained by the Anvil Hill Alliance

Below is information about Anvil Hill and climate change. Choose on-line to view it in your web browser or PDF to download it in PDF format (viewable with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader). MS Word format is for Microsoft Word, OpenDocument is an open (non-proprietary) format good for OpenOffice and other free office suites.

Links to other on-line resources and groups

• Aerial photo tour of coal mines in the Upper Hunter and the proposed Anvil Hill mine site.

• Rising Tide Australia: grassroots climate change activism.

• Hunter Community Environment Centre: encourages and facilitates environmental advocacy and education in Newcastle and the Hunter, NSW.

• Greenpeace Australia: campaigning to ensure a just, peaceful, sustainable environment for future generations.

• Save Anvil Hill documentary: a short documentary about the fight to save Anvil Hill.

• Save The Drip: fighting new coal mines around the Goulburn river (and "The Drip") in NSW.

• Alternative Technology Association: non-profit community group that aims to use and promote environmentally friendly technology.

• Australian Student Environment Network: national network of students active on environmental justice issues on their campuses and in their communities.

• Climate Action Network Australia: non-profit environmental group dedicated to fighting climate change.

• Colong Foundation for Wilderness: community nature conservation organisation committed to preservation of wilderness in New South Wales.

• Friends of the Earth Australia: Melbourne community-based activist organization which works towards an ecologically sustainable and socially equitable society.

• Friends of Tumblebee: group of residents who have been lobbying the NSW Government to find an alternative site for the massive Tomalpin Industrial Estate

• Mineral Policy Institute: Australian-based non-government organisation specialising in advocacy, campaigning and research to prevent environmentally and socially destructive mining, minerals and energy projects in Australia, Asia and the Pacific.

• Nepean Action Group: fighting coal mining around the Nepean River in NSW.

• North East Forest Alliance: unincorporated, non-hierarchical group of activists protecting Old Growth and High Conservation Value forests.

• Nature Conservation Council of NSW: the umbrella organisation for around 120 conservation and environment groups.

• Society of Frogs and Reptiles Inc.

• The Wilderness Society - Newcastle: the Newcastle Campaign Centre is hard at work protecting our wonderful natural world in a range of campaigns at a local, state and national level.

• Total Environment Centre: a hub, a resource and support base for environmentalists working on a wide range of issues.

• Climate Action Network Australia: Network of groups campaigning on climate change.

• Coal Trail: Linking the Asia-Pacific region fighting coal - lots of info on campaigns in the region.

• Environmental Justice Initiative Australia: EJIA exposes the social, environmental and cultural costs associated with Australia's non-renewable energy industry.

• Up in Smoke: a report that says global warming threatens to reverse human progress and make the international targets on halving global poverty by 2015, known as the Millennium Development Goals, unattainable.

• Politics of Oil : How the world's richest industries influence government and politics, from the Centre for Public Integrity

• Aiding and Abetting Climate Change: An in depth research report outlining the Australian Government's failure to address climate change through the Australian Aid Agency, AusAID