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1. Murray-Darling basin water buybacks capped

   Environment Mel Barnes Water Murray-Darling Basin Water buybacks for the Murray Darling basin will ... able to buy back only 1500 gigalitres of water entitlements from farmers each year. But the volume of ... water taken out of the basin for human purposes, such as agriculture, industry or town water supplies, ...

2. People power win protects water

   Environment Climate crisis Gas Mel Barnes Water In a massive win for people power, the Planning ... around drinking water catchments for greater Sydney. Stop CSG Illawarra spokesperson Jess Moore said: ... “This is huge win for the campaign to stop CSG and protect our water. "It is the result of the ...

3. CSG risks Sydney's drinking water

   of lying about his pre-election promise to protect farmland and drinking water catchments from the ... Illawarra's biggest concerns is the protection of water catchment areas. Moore said: "O'Farrell ... promised to ban exploration and mining in the drinking water catchment. This was, quite clearly, ...

4. Super trawler kills seals and dolphins in Australian waters

   Australian waters. “The Australian Fisheries Management Authority and sectors of the fishing industry have ... waters.” April 26, 2015 1050 Stop The Super Trawlers rally and march, Port Adelaide April 26 2015. Photo: ...

5. Urgent need for coal seam gas catchment ban

   land in NSW that supplies our drinking water protected, areas the report labels 'particularly ... drilling in water catchments areas. Moore said: "CSG exploration and mining always involves unearthing ... water that is high in salt and methane, and can contain toxic and radioactive compounds and heavy ...

6. US farmer gives warning over coal seam gas

   polluted ground water, polluted air and other effects of the gas industry. Fenton’s first meeting will be ... area. Two years later, the EPA found the water was contaminated with dangerous chemicals and methane ... caused by fracking for gas and warned Pavillion residents not to drink the water and to use a fan when ...

7. Billionaire insists reef makes a good toxic waste dump

   companies, the Yabulu nickel refinery, to be allowed to dump millions of litres of toxic water into the Great ... should reject Palmer’s application. Palmer argued that dumping the water into the ocean is the only ... solution and denied that the water, which is full of metals and nitrogen, would be harmful to the ...

8. Protest over land council mining plans

   to riverways and water reserves, water that we actually drink. The fear of further contamination is ... bottom of dams and sucked the water out of it. That water is then contaminated, you can’t recover it.” ...

9. How we can beat the dirty mining giants

   harmful impacts on water resources, human health and local environments. A network of anti-CSG campaign ... go ahead, a contradictory position. “It does not protect the land and water of NSW communities. It ... does not rule out CSG development in drinking water catchments.” The federal government followed suit ...

10. Climate summit resolves to ‘connect the dots’

    Climate crisis Mel Barnes The fourth Climate Action Summit was held on the weekend of April 27 to 29 at the University of Western Sydney. This annual summit brings together climate activists and environmentalists from across Australia to discuss campaigns ...

11. Gloucester sets up camp to block coal seam gas

    when governments side with the coal seam gas miners, protectors stand up for land, water and ... raise awareness of the possible contamination CSG mining could have on the local water catchments. [To ...

12. Gas company pollutes aquifer with uranium

    investigation found uranium at levels 20 times higher than safe drinking water guidelines. Other heavy metals ... found in the water included lead, aluminium, arsenic, barium, boron and nickel. Such a serious breach ... that the industry is an environmental risk to water and the land. The Lock the Gate Alliance has called ...

13. How a safe climate can be won

    water coral reefs are one of the world's ecosystems that's most threatened and especially ... threatened by the combination of a warming climate and acidification of the ocean waters.” It has been seven ... increase in frequency and severity. Water will be one resource that is most affected. Projected changes in ...

14. Overfishing: A major threat to our oceans

    pressure and banned the supertrawler from operating in Australian waters for two years. During this time ... world's second-largest trawler and would have been the largest ship ever to fish in Australian waters. The ... supertrawlers like the Abel Tasman are able to work in previously unfished waters. Under the logic of capitalism ...

15. Pacific Climate Warriors tell Australia to cut emissions

    impact in the Pacific Islands. On some islands, seawater has contaminated fresh water aquifers. ... a chance of keeping our islands above water. What we reap now is what our children will sow in the future.” ...

16. Kimberley: Gas hub threatens dinosaur tracks

    fracking, a technique that injects large volumes of chemicals, water and sand underground at high pressure ... are campaigning against the use of fracking because of the potential to contaminate and disrupt water ... particularly on the water table, they deplete the water table, this is a desert region, it could have huge ...

17. No polluting pulp mill!

    Environmentalists argue that the pulp mill will badly affect the quality of air and water, threaten endangered ... will use 26 billion litres of fresh water a year from the Trevallyn Dam, which supplies ... Launceston's drinking water. This could force water restrictions on the city. The range of people now speaking ...

18. Abbott turns back boats, with force

    them in Indonesian waters. Continuing the government’s practice of absolute secrecy about the ... asylum seekers being handcuffed before their boat was towed back to Indonesian waters and abandoned in ... rough seas. Asylum seeker Yousif Ibrahim from Sudan said: "We asked for water, they didn't ...

19. CSG free campaign grows in regional NSW

    on their land and water, and angry about the lack of consultation by the gas companies. From the ... exploration; protect the Great Artesian Basin and other underground water resources from being polluted by coal ... learning that they have things in common, that we all want to protect the land and water.” Australia May ...

20. Communities use new tactics to go CSG free

    June last year, 10,000 litres of untreated saline CSG water were leaked into the environment. The ... of agricultural land and water aquifers, farmers also recognise the importance of protecting the ... beyond doubt that CSG will not impact the water resources, there will be more blockades. It’s the only ...

21. CSG company slapped on the wrist for pollution

    Narrabri in NSW by discharging contaminated water. Explaining the fines, the EPA said it “issued two ... penalty notices with fines of $1500 each to Eastern Star Gas for discharging polluted water containing ... creek. They commissioned independent tests on the water from the creek. The tests cost more than the ...

22. Earthworker: Workers create climate solutions

    with solar hot water systems, the aim is to eventually expand to include a full range of green ... a licence. Once we have the licence we will be able to begin the process of producing solar hot water ... employers, workers can negotiate for solar hot water systems as part of their wage outcome in the EBA. This ...

23. Students slime nuclear scumbags

    water. A large number of workshops focused on lifestyle solutions to environmental problems, like ...

24. Pulp mill court challenge begins

    ancient forests. It is believed the mill would use some 26 billion litres of fresh water a year and would ...

25. Australia’s biggest coalmine gets green light

    on water resources. But the Queensland and federal governments ignored these concerns. This is just ... – increased coral disease, reduced water quality and ship strikes on whales. This means impacts on the ...

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