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1. Protests confront Gillard on coal seam gas, refugee rights

   water, land and the environment represented by the coal seam gas industry. Rally chairperson Ewan ... covered by CSG. Our homes are now unsellable, and almost uninhabitable.” “Our water, our land, no to CSG,” ...

2. South Africa: Durban's greenwash ahead of climate conference

   Economy Environment Climate crisis Patrick Bond Durban Will the host city for the November-December United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17) clean up its act? The August 23 launch of a major Academy of Science of South Africa (Assaf) report,  Towa ...

3. United States: New York prisoners left to face Irene

   B — all, that is, save one. Rikers Island, which lies in the waters between Queens and the Bronx, is not ... wholesale, leaving behind prisoners in locked cells, some standing in sewage-tainted water up to their chests ... … “Prisoners went days without food, water and ventilation, and deputies admit that they received no emergency ...

4. Mining companies launch ad campaign to defend coal seam gas

   Waters responded to the ‘We want CSG’ campaign in a September 5 statement. “APPEA are saying that this ... are saying they want coal seam gas,” Waters said. “A recent Galaxy survey of over a thousand people ...

5. United States: Indigenous peoples join pipeline protests

   Texas encompassing Native American-US treaty territories and crossing water aquifers and rivers, ... Ogallala aquifer, which supplies one-third of the US’s ground water used for irrigation and drinking water ...

6. Dirty money talks, governments baulk

   investigation of its impacts on farming, water and the health of nearby communities. Now, Victoria’s Liberal ...

7. Capitalism: the critical environmental issue

   a number of crops have been decreased by high temperature, droughts, and floods; the drinking water for ... melting permafrost in the far north and the melting of glaciers that once provided reliable water in the ... services” — such as the role wetlands play in cleaning runoff water and providing habitat for wildlife — and ...

8. Orica pollution scandal not an isolated case

   approximately 30 swimming pools full of water.” But it didn’t say the concentration was 34% higher than its ...

9. Ten propositions on the climate crisis

   that increasingly scarce water, food and energy resources are preserved for the rich and to feed the ...

10. Chile: Worker protests join student rising

    which freely use tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters. During the 48-hour strike alone, ...