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1. Victory for farmers as Caroona coal mine cancelled

   preliminary water studies on the area's aquifers which water the region's high agricultural yields. ... a full, independent, catchment-wide water study to be conducted ahead of any exploratory mining. But the ... the green light without comprehensive studies. CCAG said: “We cannot afford to have these water ...

2. Sinodinos and the $20 million deal

   before he became chairman of Australian Water Holdings (AWH) that the cashflow and costs of the company ... government-owned Sydney Water to lay water and sewerage pipes. With the NSW government certain to change from ALP ... Sydney Water, so it was actually the NSW taxpayers who were funding the Liberal Party. Sinodinos stood to ...

3. 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 ...

4. Australian company sues El Salvador for its right to pillage

   nation's water supply. The El Dorado goldmine was originally owned by Canadian company Pacific Rim, which ... river, and the safety of the entire country's water supply, are under threat by the damage already ... caused by the mine. A water quality study by the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources in ...

5. Sri Lanka: Navy wages secret war on Tamil fisherfolk

   while in Indian waters and held without trial for three years. Huge protests broke out in Rameswaram. ... if a Sinhalese fisherfolk is caught fishing in Indian waters, the Indian navy hands them back to the ... shot at sea in Indian waters by the Sri Lankan navy on January 11, 2008. He has suffered disability as ...

6. NSW suspends AGL’s Gloucester licence

   carcinogenic benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX) chemicals in flowback water from two of the four ... metres and brought to the surface as part of the flowback of water from the hydraulic fracturing ... monitoring results in Gloucester highlight the risk fracking poses to our precious water resources. “Chief ...

7. Ireland: Amid arrests and protests, gov't demonises opponents

   month for failing to stay away from the installation of water metres. A hunger strike by two of the men ... public demonstration in Dublin on March 21 by opponents of the new water tax. In an interview on February ... parliament), said water metre installers had been put in an “insidious position” but should consider the ...

8. Mining fuels dirty money boom, book shows

   of radioactive waste for each tonne of uranium extracted and regularly leaks contaminated water. The ... coral against oil from coalships running aground. Coal seam gas mining poisons water, air and soil with ... depletes underground bore water and uranium mining is insatiably thirsty (BHP’s Olympic Dam guzzles 35 ...

9. Cuba prepares for rising sea levels, extreme weather

   taken by surprise. The water took away an extremely heavy wardrobe, which simply disappeared.” Her son, ... pillars for support. “If there is flooding, the water can circulate freely underneath the house,” said the ... showed how the base of the containment wall has spillways for drainage, to let water flow back and forth. ...

10. Court rules against Olympic Dam mine challenge

    radioactive ore tailings at Olympic Dam, and also at the prospect of pumping huge amounts of water from the ... kilometres. In its present underground phase, the Olympic Dam mine uses water piped from bores in the Great ... Artesian Basin, under permits issued by the state government. The expanded mine will rely mainly on water ...

11. 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 ...

12. How we can defeat the CSG goliath

    unconventional gas mining on water tables and water supplies, and the industry’s dangerous methods of extraction ... water is their life blood. Many also understand that there are sustainable energy alternatives – and ... the Northern Rivers area have sprung up to fight to protect land and water from CSG mining. At least ...

13. Britain: Fracking threat must be opposed

    This is done by pumping millions of gallons of water ― mixed with potentially toxic chemicals to help ... the gas flow more freely ― down the well at extremely high pressure. Only maybe half of this water ... of problems for water resources, water contamination and air pollution. There is clear evidence of ...

14. Egypt: Food prices crisis helped fuel revolt

    from damming projects, have caused water scarcities and yield declines in arable land. The resulting ... crisis caused skyrocketing prices for potable water — soft drink is now cheaper than water in many parts ... environmental limits imposed by the above-mentioned water scarcity on the Nile also ensure that the lack of food ...

15. Peru: Anti-mining protests erupt before poll

    south-eastern Peru, where precious water supplies have been diverted to mining at the expense of farmers, is ... Development (SED), as “South America’s most water-stressed country”. SED said: “Water draining from the Andean ... highlands... serves as a water tower that supports … agricultural activities.” Glacier melt due to climate ...

16. Britain: Well, if the IMF approves, that's OK then

    grow kidney beans for sale to Tesco, and if your husband complains, cut off his access to water.” Yet ... told its IMF loan would be paid only if it privatised its water supply. This didn't seem popular, ... so about $700,000 of its government's money was spent on a campaign promoting private water ...

17. Deported Afghan refugees have nowhere to go

    Development Project, it was to be a “housing settlement” with running water, jobs, schools and small ... problems. Shockingly, the site has never had a permanent water supply. Due to a land dispute with a nearby ... village, water has been trucked in and collected by children. And despite its agreement a year ago in the ...

18. Methane study reveals serious new climate threat

    elevated levels of methane above the water surface and even more in the water just below", researcher ... floor in volumes too great to be dissolved by the surrounding water. Echo-soundings detected ... water in growing volumes into the Arctic Ocean. Together with increased warming of ocean waters by the ...

19. Traditional owner: don't mine our land

    a significant Alice Springs water supply. Canadian resource giant, Cameco, has entered a joint venture with ... problems with the pace of ground water restoration, according to Canada's Calgary Herald. Traditional ... "There's a bore there and Alice Springs communities get their water from there, it would be too ...

20. 'A step beyond the status quo': social enterprise aims for green jobs

    enterprise making solar hot water units, and how such social enterprises could provide economic and ... manufacturing solar hot water units for sale across the union movement and communities where we live? Could we ... solar-powered water heaters. In an economy that is 80% service sector — combined with carbon constraints on our ...

21. Manifest the power

    imperial slaughter, on a leaky boat in shark-infested waters How can these arseholes be so heartless? ... team as them as they are skimming off your share of the cream They say refugees are a waste of water ... while grazing cattle to send to the slaughter and putting lots of water up the steaming stacks of coal ...

22. Write On: Letters to the Editor

    the same research? Also the question of future water supplies is being ignored by those who support ... coal. What will it cost in future to clean coal if water supplies are limited? Policies should be to ... increase investments in alternative energy and encourage industry and people to conserve energy and water ...

23. Did Carr, Refshauge and Knowles desert a sinking ship?

    construct a water desalination plant on Sydney's coastline. What were intended as public relations ... construction of the $2 billion water desalination plant could begin as early as mid-2006. This would be despite ... conservation, recycling and reticulation of stormwater as more environmentally benign solutions to the water ...

24. On the socialist campaign trail

    on our websites The alliance's water policy can now be accessed from its website (). The policy ... outlines the path to water sustainability in both the cities and the countryside. It comes out clearly ... against water trading, counterposing the need for a comprehensive plan of water saving, and conversion of ...

25. Olympic Dam expansion: a risk too great

    a plastic liner to prevent leakage. The waste is then covered with a layer of earth and then water ... radioactive water into the ground in 1994. Olympic Dam also releases deadly radon gas from the uranium. Even ... produced that head back out. BHP Billiton currently admits to using on average 35 megalitres of water a day ...

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