At Save Our Woodlands we are doing – with YOUR help – everything in our power to preserve and enhance as much of the 15% of New South Wales woodlands that remain.

We are also watching what the rest of the world is doing because we believe that it is going to take cooperation and massive action by all the nations of the world to turn things around.

STOCKHOLM, June 20 (Reuters) – Sweden’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a new energy target, giving the right-wing government the green light to push forward with plans to build new nuclear plants in a country that voted 40 years ago to phase out atomic power.

Changing the target to “100% fossil-free” electricity, from “100% renewable” is key to the government’s plan to meet an expected doubling of electricity demand to around 300 TwH by 2040 and reach net zero emissions by 2045.

Further down the article continues…

Around 98% of electricity in Sweden is already generated from water, nuclear and wind. State-owned utility Vattenfall is looking at building at least two small modular reactors and at extending the life of the country’s existing reactors. Critics say nuclear power is expensive, will take too long to build and is unsafe. The focus on nuclear power is part of a wider shift in environmental policy in a country that has long touted itself as a “green” champion.

Also noteworthy (and we think) concerning the article continues…

The coalition plans to cut the bio-fuel mix in petrol and diesel, leading to bigger CO2 emissions, a move that could mean Sweden missing 2030 emissions goals.

Proposals by Sweden to allow countries to prolong subsidies for standby coal power plants have also been met concern in the EU, while Stockholm also wanted Brussels to water-down a landmark law to restore deteriorating natural habitats.

At home [within Sweden], plans to simplify environmental permitting could speed up the build-out of wind power and allow miners to exploit large deposits of rare earth elements, crucial in electric motor production.

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Save Our Woodlands is an environmentally conscious group of volunteers dedicated to preserving threatened birds, animals and ecosystems in the woodlands of New South Wales, Australia.

Only 15% of our woodlands remain, the rest has been cleared for agriculture.

Save Our Woodlands Inc. secures and protects woodlands in NSW and pays landholders, in perpetuity, to conserve, enhance and re-establish native woodlands on THEIR land, and to manage these woodlands, so they are maintained.

BUT we need YOUR help.  Together we can bring about change.  Please consider donating.

People tend to think that woodlands are “just bush,” consequently, over 85% of the native woodlands in New South Wales, Australia have been replaced by agriculture.

Donate $10 per month & help protect critical habitats.   By doing so YOU will prevent further species from extinction.

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