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  1. Tasmania opposes gas fracking plans

    litres of water and a major concern for many of the farmers present was the question of where the water ... of the Arthur's Lake water pipeline scheme and this application for exploration of shale gas ... mining. Concerns were also raised about the management of toxic water resulting from the process and it ...

  2. Special treatment for pulp mill project

    also been revealed that Labor Premier Paul Lennon is considering funding the $60 million water and ... that will mean the pulp mill's annual requirement of 26,000 megalitres of water will cost the ... $1.05 million if this water was used to generate power to sell to Victoria at the average 2007 rate. ...

  3. Community group opposes fracking in Tasmania

    degradation, water quality and damage to Tasmania’s clean reputation. There are currently three companies who ... a significant part of Hobart’s water catchment area. Frack Free Tasmania is a new campaign group, formed less ... would have on Tasmania’s water and agricultural industries. Sarah Wilson from the Environmental ...

  4. Anti-pulp mill alliance grows as bulldozers get the go ahead

    design team has been shifted to Melbourne by Gunns." Two new bills, the Water and Sewerage ... Corporations Bill 2008 and the Water and Sewerage Industry Bill 2008, were tabled in the Legislative Council on ... control of council sewerage and water assets and also have the power to borrow money for infrastructure. ...

  5. Victory for Tas coastlines

    that day reported: “Concerns were raised about the impact of the development on nesting migratory water ... Water Orielton Ramsar-listed Wetland of International Significance … This will put Lauderdale on the map ...

  6. Tas forest deal comes with pulp mill catch

    a number of grounds including its location, its impacts on the marine environment, its use of fresh water ... plantations and all the problems they cause (including recent documented cases of drinking water toxity). If ... they were genuinely going to reform the industry, plantations would not be allowed in water catchments, ...

  7. Anti-logging protests escalate

    Department of Primary Industries and Water (DPIW), while Heritage and Arts will be swallowed by the ...

  8. Global movement calls for climate action

    economy that works for people and the planet — now. A world with good jobs, clean air and water, and ... the country to defend our farmland, water reserves and climate from coal seam gas and other risky gas ...

  9. How to build a successful climate movement

    Earthworker solar hot water cooperative, but many are still caught up in defending jobs in fossil fuel ...

  10. Pulp mill approval to meet resistance

    potential impacts on Commonwealth waters, many kilometres out from our beaches. What about the inshore areas ...

  11. Labor/Greens govt backflip on school shutdowns

    this means pay will fall each year while the cost of power, water and sewage, food, petrol and ...

  12. Stopping the pulp mill is still the issue

    the company fights for funding, final operating approval and the acquisition of land for a water ...

  13. Lennon gets Gunns pulp mill bill passed

    The consultant is not required to consider the project's water, energy or transport impacts or ...

  14. Tree-sit connects Tassie forests to the world: Interview with Miranda Gibson

    unsustainable. There is also a great concern that the Forest Practices Code will be watered down to allow logging ...

  15. New twists in Tasmania’s forest industry crisis

    eventually transform the mill site into a deep-water port and eco-tourism resort. But they have promised to ...

  16. Ten steps for a safe climate

    from the National Hot Water Strategy; • as with other states and the federal government, the Tasmanian ...

  17. Anti-pulp mill campaigner: Protests to escalate if project continues

    Economy Environment Susan Austin For the past seven years, the community action group TAP into better Tasmania, formerly Tasmanians Against the Pulp Mill, has campaigned against Gunns Ltd’s attempts to build a pulp mill in the Tamar Valley. TAP spokespers ...