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1. Communities unite to save land and water

   short-term interests of big coal and CSG companies to come ahead of the protection of water supplies and ... regardless of land and water concerns. Duddy said: “The ability under the plan for the cabinet to declare ... concern over water security grows, the group Save Our Water Catchment Areas (SOWCA) says it is outraged ...

2. Bosswatch: Water workers to strike, mining giants 'cut fat'

   Workers & unions Paul Benedek Water workers to strike Workers at Sydney Water, angered by the ... which will conduct a further two weeks of negotiations with Sydney Water management, is worried that ... after 335 job cuts Sydney Water wants a new enterprise agreement that will make it easier to sack even ...

3. NSW activists challenge CSG approval

   impacts on water, health, agriculture and the environment. Instead, Moore said, they not only “failed to ... protect drinking water catchments from the risks posed by CSG,” but actually aid “ongoing development of ... wineries and horse studs. “Yet drilling and fracking are still allowed in NSW water catchments under the ...

4. Brisbane rallies to save Mary River

   water supply problems, including more water tanks and water recycling. To join the bus, contact Sarah at ...

5. Solar cooperative to save jobs, climate

   solar hot water systems in each state of Australia. [It] is beginning the process in Morwell, Victoria, ... receive part of their remuneration as a solar hot water system on theirs, their children's or their ... solar hot water systems. If all of the state had solar hot water, it would cut 1.5 million tonnes of ...

6. Mining bosses in a spin over growing opposition

   construction, coal export terminals, new roads, land clearing, waste water storage and more. The CSG industry’s ... for waste water, gas pipelines and fire breaks. Claim: The total number of coal mines in NSW has risen ... mining licences have been approved despite the huge unknowns, such as the effects on health, water ...

7. Farmers to lead big anti-CSG rally on May 1

   water resources from the coal and CSG industries. The draft policy fails protect any area of NSW from ... Fiona Simson said on April 3. “Protecting our precious land and water is an issue which affects everyone ... sustainability of our land, water, environment and the future of other vital industries and regional communities. ...

8. �鶹��ý TV: Australian solidarity with Bersih 3.0

   people arrested along with widespread use of water cannon and tear gas. Justice for the Malaysian people- ...

9. LIVE BLOG: Illawarra Coal Seam Gas conference

   BTEX chemicals because they can occur in produced water, even if not used. “We’ve seen evaporation ... What cost to our health, to our water, to our environment? Look at asbestos industry, and the damage ... around CSG, starting with water. “ Any extraction technique produces contaminated water. “Salt is the ...

10. AGL sinks new Sydney CSG well despite three-year breach

    metres from the Nepean River, which flows into the Warragamba Dam, a key water supply for Sydney. The ... well presents serious risks of water contamination given the Nepean floods regularly. Despite ...

11. Farmers occupy Qld premier's office

    premier's lunch, along with a glass of polluted water. November 8, 2008 774 ...

12. Coal seam gas: People’s power can stop it!

    The NSW Irrigators Council said the policy “fails to protect water resources from mining and coal seam ... Worse, said Stop CSG Illawarra campaigner Jess Moore, is that drinking water catchments are not even ... mentioned in the government’s draft documents. “We’ve got a project approved that risks the drinking water ...

13. Mona Mona residents speak out

    and infrastructure such as water, schools and housing it has determined to convert the area into ...

14. Sydney residents rally against coal seam gas mining

    release the gas (pumping water, sand and chemicals into the earth to produce mini explosions to release ... independent US film "GasLand". The dangers include contamination of water supplies, irreversibly ...

15. Coal, CSG mining threatens our food future, says forum

    food and water supply. Acknowledging the traditional owners of the land, Duddy noted: "We can ... CSG mining, including “the contaminents from drilling and fracking that exist in the water and in the ...

16. No trivial triumph for Stop CSG Sydney

    preventing drilling in the inner west, and opposes any CSG mining across Sydney, as well as in water ...

17. Free Lex Wotton!

    tagetted and disabling the water mains to hinder firefighters' attempts to douse the flames. ... 40-year-old plumber was asked to return to town to repair some water pipes. In order to accomplish the repairs ... he turned off the local water mains. He then heard about the community meeting about Mulrunji's ...

18. Lying mining companies 'adbusted'

    Exploration Association (APPEA). In the face of a broad, growing movement demanding our water, environment and ...

19. SBS's Go Back shames gov't, corporate media

    Huge refugee camp cities exist and conditions are deplorable, without reliable access even to water ...

20. Colombia: Challenging ‘Killer Coke’

    theft of water, the violation of the rights and conditions of workers, and the violation of Colombian ...

21. Rinehart grabs for media control

    a 1984 interview, Hancock said of so called half-caste Aboriginal people: “I would dope [their] water up ...

22. Greedy banks out of control

    waters. Now the belligerent banks are openly saying they will “unhook” themselves from the RBA, and set ...