The NSW government is currently in talks with Origin about paying huge public subsidies to keep the Eraring coal-fired power station open beyond the planned closure date of 2025.

Join us to demand not a cent of public money is given to these coal-fired profits. Public funds are urgently needed to accelerate the roll-out of renewable energy and provide job security into the future for workers and communities currently dependent on fossil fuels.

We start our rally at 9am at NSW Parliament then will march down to the Origin AGM to call on the NSW Government and Origin to ensure Eraring does not stay open for a single day longer than planned.

What: A rally and march calling for no public funding for Origin’s coal-fired profits
When: 9am - 10:30am Wednesday 18 October
Where: NSW Parliament House (6 Macquarie St Sydney), marching to the Origin AGM (176 Cumberland St The Rocks)

NSW is bracing for another dangerous bushfire period with climate-fueled extreme weather, even as residents are still homeless from recent floods.  

Yet, despite the urgency of a transition away from fossil fuels, Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions increased last year.  

This is a big deal. Eraring’s climate emissions are truly huge, at over 13 million tonnes per year. Every year it’s kept open, the coal power station’s emissions are equivalent to the entire NSW passenger fleet of 4.4 million cars.  

The planned closure of Eraring in 2025 plays a crucial role in the NSW government’s own emissions reduction plans and must proceed. 

For NSW workers, families, and our climate, we cannot afford to prop Eraring up beyond 2025.

This event will occur on stolen Gadigal land and Sovereignty was never ceded.