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  1. Shut Ranger down say Greens, socialists

    showering water in March. The contaminated water contained uranium at 400 times the legal limit. Energy ... mismanagement of the process water at the mine is scandalous. In a August 31 press release, Eldridge stated that ... the "mine's process water never goes through an intensive treatment plant appropriate for ...

  2. 'Frequent' radioactive leaks at uranium mine

    injected back into the ground water. On January 11, a pump continued operating after a shut-down of the ... plant. Pressure built in a pipe, causing it to rupture. The liquid contained ground water, the acid leach ... same way it deals with all its wastes — by simply pumping it into ground water. Heathgate and the SA ...

  3. AFGHANISTAN: The UN offers a fresh hell

    for water — yet few UN officials can do more than shake their heads when they stand in this future ... case they took away employment and used their scarce water resources. "This area is reasonably ... [sic] free of mines. We're not anticipating much resistance. If they get water and food, ...

  4. INDIA: Villagers reject uranium mine

    water sources and its location near a national tiger reserve. The huge project will cover 322 hectares ... in the Lambapur-Peddagutta plateau region, above the Nagarjuna Sagar water reservoir. UCIL also ... environmentalists fear that contaminated storm-water runoff from the open-cut uranium mine could enter the ...

  5. The battle to save Jamieson Park

    sides of the creek and storm-water will drain into it. A water retention pond is to be constructed so as ... water retention pond's long-term maintenance and pollution control measures, particularly in view ... of the current state of water quality in Narrabeen Lagoon. Significant concern also exists in ...

  6. BOTSWANA: Bushmen on the brink

    bureaucratic procedure for most), and has forbidden them from taking in desperately needed supplies of water ... that forced most Bushmen out, their last remaining water borehole was smashed and they were forced to ... underground tubers for water. About 2500 Bushmen and Bakgalagadi now live in two bleak resettlement camps, ...

  7. Iron Gates' threat to wetlands, sacred sites

    'gate' impeding the flow between the fresh and salt water, quite often at different levels. The shelf has ... 1914. Extensive Aboriginal investigation has discovered that the salt water never reached over this ... gate. It kept the fresh water in the wetlands, letting only flood levels past, and served as a bridge ...

  8. Mexican hurricane spotlights social inequalities

    electricity or water. Tens of thousands who depended on tourism to earn a living are without work. Like all ... bottled water and tortillas. Thus far, in Acapulco alone, 25 people have been arrested and charged with ... suspended distribution of food and bottled water to prevent corruption and hoarding. A major concern has ...

  9. Beverley uranium: the government's dirty secret

    underground structure. In-situ leaching has caused disasters overseas. In situations like Beverley, town water ... million metres of ground water are poisoned and threatening water supplies. In Beverley, water is scarce. ... communities. It is not possible to restore contaminated ground water to its original condition. In Bulgaria, ...

  10. Roxby Downs expansion to cause irreparable damage

    state to facilitate access to Great Artesian Basin water free of charge, and overrides existing ... water. According to WMC, the leakage had been occurring for two years but only became known in January ... government granted a special water license. In December 1996, amendments to the Indenture Act gave WMC the ...

  11. New report warns of greenhouse health disaster

    food- and water-borne infections. Third World populations will be at greater risk of death, injury, ... each year; increases in cholera and other food and water-related infections, particularly in tropical ... and subtropical regions; population displacement, loss of agricultural land, salt water intrusion and ...

  12. Uranium mining increasing at Roxby Downs

    accountability to the public. It, does not have to pay for the water it draws from the Great Artesian Basin. Its ... to determine if the water was of sufficient quality for WMC's purposes. It was not used as ... a water source due to its close proximity to Hermit Springs, the second most important mound spring ...

  13. Farming without harming

    resulted in algal blooms and poisoning of water supplies. As well, native flora and fauna have been abused, ... wind and water erosion of soil is to be stopped, then broadacre cropping needs to be gradually ... in water catchment areas to guard against erosion and to restore the vegetation that in turn restores ...

  14. Alliance formed to save Georges River

    upper reaches of the river, had not been seen for 30 years. In the study, water rats were expected to be ... penetrates just a few centimetres beneath the water surface. The smell is of putrefaction. This is despite ... Wilson, former Water Board managing director and author of the Georges River Basin Plan, in a release to ...

  15. Fish stocks dwindling worldwide

    fisheries within the economic zone. When distant water fleets fish depleted species that straddle ... to support the construction of new vessels when we should be taking vessels out of the water. Bigger, ... Oceans — into the waters of developing countries — to get rid of the excess fishing in their own waters ...

  16. The fight to save Springbrook

    water supply after heavy rain. Another application, by Alpine Panorama Pty Ltd, wants to rezone 80 ... 2>The Springbrook area is the main water catchment area for the Gold Coast (Hinze Dam and Little Nerang ... Dam). There are already water quality problems in Little Nerang Dam, which has suffered from algae ...

  17. Bangladesh cyclone: Billions for war, a pittance for lives

    living in the open, subjected to daily thunderstorms and gales, without drinking water, food, clothes or ... and other water-borne diseases are already evident. "With more than 12 million people homeless ... and without clean drinking water, thousands of unburied dead plus thousands of rotting animal ...

  18. Floating Chernobyl heads for Australia

    their territorial waters. Australia has not. The ship, which left the French port of Cherbourg on ... an "incident" in Australian waters, Australia would be obliged to go to its aid under the ... international waters. Thus Canada has been required to consent to the current shipment. "We know that ...

  19. Many more Braers on the high seas

    1989, are still plying some of Australia's most environmentally sensitive waters. Under regulations ... passage of the Barrier Reef, waters classed by the Commonwealth Department of Transport and Communications ... between Norway and Canada, rather than a safer but longer route. Thus, the Braer was in dangerous waters ...

  20. Global warming: it's already begun

    by the expansion of sea water as it warms. Agriculture in Brazil, Peru, the Sahel, South-east Asia, ... climatic change. There will be major water shortages in many arid to semi-arid areas or areas subjected to ... waters. During three weeks of July 1988, temperatures of 52° F were recorded in deep waters; around 37° F. ...

  21. Palestinian hunger strikers remain defiant as solidarity protests grow

    striking prisoners continues to deteriorate. Some have reportedly begun refusing water. TeleSUR English ... a number of prisoners being held in solitary confinement in Ramla prisons had stopped drinking water ... prisoners are only consuming salt and water — giving them only dirty sheets and covers and carrying out ...

  22. No role for gas, say protesters

    of the gas industry and its lack of interest in the contamination of water, including the Great ...

  23. 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 ...

  24. Voices from Manus: ‘We will never move to another prison’

    Island have been deprived food, water and medical aid since the centre’s closure on October 30. They read ... enemies nor are we prisoners of war. Yet they have cut food, water and power from us. We would not deserve ...

  25. Socialists target Victorian upper house seat

    housing, unemployment, expensive electricity and water bills and a privatised public transport system, but ...

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