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1. Fishers and scientists slam Roxby desalination plans

   The operation will need large amounts of water — eventually, as much as 200 megalitres a day. BHP ... little wave action. While local tidal flows can be fast, it is largely the same water that moves back and ... forth; mixing with waters further down the gulf is limited. Rapid evaporation from the surface means that ...

2. Co-op to ‘work our way out of the climate emergency’

   campaign seeks to build a cooperatively-owned factory making solar hot water systems in Morwell, Victoria. ... Eureka’s Future Workers Cooperative, which will manufacture solar hot water systems. “In the wage clauses ...

3. 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,” ...

4. 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 ...

5. New Wollongong council backs community

   mining in the region's water catchments, and said it will work with state and federal governments to ... the water supply catchment area to urge the NSW government to rule out CSG in the catchments. It also ...

6. National Irrigators Council stirs flooding fear

   environmental watering needs of wetlands, rivers and lakes in the Murray-Darling. “This briefing paper we ... water to natural wetlands and billabongs so that native fish and waterbirds can breed. “To suggest that ...

7. WA ‘Stop-and-search’ laws defeated — for now

   laws look dead in the water after the National Party opposed the bill on November 11. The proposed laws ... despite police minister Rob Johnson offering amendments to water down the bill, such as shortening the ...

8. Epic kayak journey takes petitions to Garrett

   government to abandon its plans for the dam. Local groups say that the water from the dam will not be needed ... for another 25 years. The Queensland government will bring its recycled water scheme and the ...

9. Climate change: Maldives seek new homeland

   levels". Most parts of the Maldives are only 1.5 metres above water, and Nasheed pointed out that ... a "small rise" in water levels — with the United Nations predicting a 59 centimetre rise by 2100 due ...

10. Stop killing Coke

    didn't, until taken to the Supreme Court), respect the environment (they didn't — downstream water ... Water Commission, which then handed out dirt cheap water concessions to Coke bottling plants. India also ... has its own water woes as a result of Coke building water-intensive plants (it takes 3.8 litres of ...

11. Brumby breaks forest promise

    water run–offs than previously logged forests and are important carbon stores. The report found 40% of ... water flows into rivers and dams. The April 5 Age said East Gippsland native hardwood was sold off by ...

12. Sri Lanka: Terrible conditions for Tamils in concentration camps

    living in the overcrowded camps in the north, where there are shortages of food, water, sanitation and ... many appeared undernourished. "The water supply is simply enough. Sanitation is one of the areas ...

13. The SIEVX remembered

    bringing 421 refugees to Australia sank in international waters, inside Australia's aerial ... gave birth in the water and was found drowned, with her dead child still umbilically attached. It would ...

14. Labor, Greens weaken ACT civil unions bill

    bill by pressuring it to water down the changes. On December 10, the ACT Labor government amended the ... ACT Legislative Assembly will today vote to water down civil partnership laws, removing the legal ...

15. Victoria: green jobs campaign launched

    • Renewable energy — 4000 new jobs this year; • Recycling — 3100 new green jobs by 2014; • Solar water heating ... — 1500 new green jobs by 2020; and • Energy and water efficiency — 6900 new green jobs over five years. ...

16. 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 ...

17. Greens a chance in Marrickville by-election

    Labor's neglect of the water and energy crisis. "We need sustainable solutions such as re-use and ... recycling of water, not half-baked ideas like the desalination plant", said Byrne. The Liberal Party is ...

18. Protest rally targets parliament opening

    mismanagement of Victoria's water resources and his contempt for community involvement and expert advice on ... government plan to pipe water to Melbourne from the state's north will negatively impact on food ...

19. Government to bankrupt desalination protesters

    Ben Courtice Your Water Your Say (YWYS), the group campaigning against Victoria's proposed ... to solve Melbourne's water problems. By taking this action they will try to ensure they never ...

20. Slap on the wrist for ERA

    mine in 2003-2004. In March 2004, 28 mine workers were exposed to water containing uranium. The ... water's radioactivity was 400 times the legal limit. In another incident, a vehicle that was contaminated ...

21. No 'good guys' in Southern Ocean fishing

    from being used for mining or nuclear proliferation. The same courage to protect Antarctic waters ... of the high seas growing, exacerbated by the difficulty of policing the vast waters, both Greenpeace ... raising the question of whether fishing in Antarctic waters should be allowed at all. Ocean Defence has ...

22. Villawood under siege

    communication, water and power are disconnected. All detainees, not just hunger strikers, are now incommunicado. ... moved to Woomera and Port Hedland. July 31: Water, phone and power are restored to Villawood. RAC ...

23. 'Hungary's Chernobyl'

    other animals lie dead beside the river after they ate fish from it or drank the water. Now the people ... must drink bottled water. After the cyanide pollution passed through Hungary, it entered the Danube ...

24. Suing for fun and profit

    Potosi. The local authorities believed the dump was causing fatal contamination of the states' water ... gasoline additive MTBE, which is contaminating its drinking water, by the end of 2002 will cost the company ...

25. Feast inside, soup kitchen outside

    and of how the World Bank is pushing poor countries to sell off their water supplies to Western ... privatised in fresh water marinade". August 8, 2001 459 News ...

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