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PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Mining company won't compensate villagers
million, which is 25 times US drinking water standards. Samples taken at the closest downstream village, ... continue to provide fresh water to all villages down to the mouth of the river", Griffen said. The ...
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Growth in the time of cholera
assets. In the quest for "nichehood", the railways, telecommunications and now even water are ... Mobile phones and swimming pools on one side, no electricity or clean running water on the other. Last ...
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Wrecking the oceans
and ice caps will increase the amount of water in the oceans and because water expands as it grows ... in step with rising water temperature. More ominously, during the past 40 years, the production of ... changed during the past 60 years because of a northward shift in animal life in response to rising water ...
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10 reasons to stop Badgerys Creek airport
paths would traverse Warragamba Dam, which supplies most of Sydney's water. Dumped fuel, leaks or ... Sydney's water supply. 5. No consideration of other projects: the EIS did not consider simultaneous ...
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The Senate and Wik
negotiate on national parks, internal waters and offshore waters. Ironically, Aborigines have benefited, if ...
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Australian executives charged
manager at the mine, Steve Reid, with violations of the water code and the mining act and with criminal ... to lack of safe water. There will be food shortages and price increases. Previous leaks from the ...
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Villagers protest against environmental damage
government to grant the Australian-controlled Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) exception from a water use permit, ... that have caused deaths. "The whole eco-system and the water quality is being heavily polluted ...
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Uranium mines proposed for WA
it is reluctant to do so. Water for the mine would be pumped from bores, causing water tables in the ...
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Indigenous and non-indigenous artistry
Yawk Yawk are the water spirits from the western and northern Arnhem creek holes on the flood plains. ... for food on their night's journey, drifting into the fresh water country of the Yawk Yawk. ...
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ICI: poisoning for profit
and other sites around Australia, such as ground water contamination and hazardous waste stockpiles at ... ICI Botany. On June 24 in Sydney, Greenpeace activists planted two-metre high warning signs in waters ...
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On the box
Tuesday, April 23, 8pm. Russia's Deep Secrets — One and a half kilometres beneath the icy waters of ... plutonium-tipped warheads exposed to sea water. There is a danger that sediment contaminated by plutonium will be ...
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Amazon peoples take Texaco to court
high incidences of skin disease from bathing in contaminated water, as well as respiratory diseases, ... tests in the US of soil and water samples taken from zones where Texaco has operated have revealed ...
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Fishermen Fed Up With Exxon
water from the plant's Unit 2 reactor, which was destroyed in the United States' worst ... 640 blasts on ground and water surface and soil and plant life at the Nevada test site. [From Econews, ...
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The Somalian spiral
inter-riverine areas with fresh water and trees are prized ecological niches. The oases are used as base ... water together formed the Beel, whose elders came together in a council — the Diya. The Diya deliberated ... mainly camels, in search of pasture, water and trade. Trade has a long history among the Somali, ...
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Filipinos protest against Clinton visit
students were attacked with truncheons, water cannons and tear gas. Several people were injured, including ... possible use of Filipino waters and facilities for the "pre-positioning" of US warships and ...
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Whaling clash on high seas
Norwegian territorial waters. Watson replied that he was 17 miles from the nearest point of land. ... Forever rammed Andenes, that the vessels were only four miles off shore (in Norwegian waters at the time ...
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Seminar challenges privatisation
Walker spoke on the international experience of privatisation, focusing on water. He pointed out that the ... other community functions. The conference unanimously agreed to endorse an ongoing campaign, with water ...
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Social impact of PNG logging
the women. Clear-felling pollutes the drinking water and causes the breeding of mosquitoes [creating ... which people also use as drinking water. How do logging camps affect village society? When the logging ...
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UN urged to debate blockade
of Cuba's hard currency income. The US recently decided that any ship in US waters which had ... drinking water, as the outbreak of the first cholera epidemic in the Americas in this century has ...
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Great Barrier Reef: 'an accident waiting to happen'
and tankers, to take local pilots on board when navigating difficult stretches in Barrier Reef waters ... tidal currents and countless other above-water hazards, including hundreds of commercial fishing boats ...
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Cutting aid costs jobs
trainers to help improve education, literacy, health and increase the provision of safe water". The ... workers) and provision of safe water for 1.75 billion people and adequate sanitation for 3 billion ...
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Women's aid group seeks funds
by women. It has helped to improve agricultural production, built safe water systems, established ... of improved housing, water supplies and toilets. Across the world, women are establishing tree ...
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Anger over Tully-Millstream dam
stream, affecting fish habitats. Stagnant water in the Tully River dam would increase the risk of dengue ... yellow-bellied glider and the marsupial antechinus. Owners of white-water rafting businesses say the scheme would ...
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Call to ban logging in the Philippines
rain water; as a result, 1 billion cubic metres of rich agricultural top soil is lost to erosion every ... lakes, floods, landslides and the clogging of irrigation and reduced quality of water for industrial and ...
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Australian spies aid Bougainville blockade
her way to Bougainville, in Solomon Islands territorial waters. This was the fourth time PNG has ... Kariki on Fauro Island. The plane swooped down, firing its machine gun at us. The bullets hit the water ...