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  1. Qld: Hundreds rally to defend water from CSG

    water from coal and coal seam gas鈥. The rally in Queens Park was sponsored by the Lock and Gate Alliance ... and Defend Our Water Queensland. Lock the Gate Alliance spokesperson Drew Hutton told the rally: 鈥淲e ... live in the driest country on earth. To allow the mining industry to pollute our water and destroy our ...

  2. Murray Darling Basin Authority to open floodgates for mining

    water for the environment through the Commonwealth's 鈥楻estoring the Balance鈥 water recovery ... program," Hutton said. 鈥淢ost of the biggest increases are proposed in areas where water quality is low. It鈥檚 ... new science behind the increased figures be made public. He said although the main underground water ...

  3. Giant rally held in Illawarra against coal seam gas

    part of a national day of coordinated actions under the theme 鈥淒efend Our Water鈥, and called for ... to communities, and drinking water, food, air and environment. "This community has made our ... large quantities of fresh water and using it to fracture underground systems is unsafe, and ridiculous ...

  4. Gladstone harbour dredging could have caused fish disease

    cubic metre harbour dredging program sullying the water.鈥 After about 25 fishermen had earlier reported ... infections from harbour water and fish were found with red spot disease and parasites, the state government ...

  5. Kenya: Flower cash crops reap hunger, destruction

    Lake Naivasha. A January 2008 report by Food and Water Watch and the Council of Canadians, Lake ... water causes levels to drop. This has had a devastating effect on plant, marine and animal life. Hippo ... water from communal taps and form long lines to do so. 鈥淐attle herders, such as the Maasai, can only ...

  6. Coal seam gas fight is about our future

    future and our right to protect this area 鈥 to protect our drinking water, our food and our future. Coal ... seam gas mining threatens all of these things. So when it comes to our drinking water, first and ... foremost, there is the water that they have to draw out of the coal seam to access the gas. That water is ...

  7. Big turnout at Townsville Stop CSG rally

    bemused protesters filled up water bottles from the nearby fountain to wash away the chalk. Australia ... October 18, 2011 900 The 'Defend our Water from Coal Seam Gas' rally took place in Townsville on ...

  8. Yemen: Fresh bloodshed as Saleh hangs on

    protesters braved sniper fire, tear gas and water cannon on October 18, The Guardian said. Saleh again ...

  9. Burmese refugee starts rooftop protest after two-year wait for release

    practice of refusing water to roof top protesters as a means of forcing them end their protest. 鈥淭he Darwin ...

  10. Occupy Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane continue camps, new actions planned

    and individuals-- with several hundred dollars, tents, food and water donated to the occupiers. ...

  11. West Papua: Army starts fresh crackdown on freedom movement

    containing fully armed troops鈥, as well as two mobile prisons, a water cannon and many other vehicles, ...

  12. Scenes of joy in besieged Gaza

    water networks. Since then, Gaza鈥檚 1.6 million residents have suffered power cut-offs, almost daily. ...

  13. What鈥檚 holding renewables back?

    to prove they are meeting the RET. But under the Rudd government, home solar panel and hot water ...

  14. Live blog: Occupy Sydney and Melbourne attacked, peaceful protests continue

    Democracy Economy Kerry Smith Update 鈥 3.30pm: Further details of the police brutality in Melbourne in the violent attack on Occupy Melbourme on October 21 are emerging. Erin Buckle, a spokeperson for Occupy Melbourne legal support, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly ...