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1. Italy: Refugees evicted as government attacks on migrants, NGOs steps up

   eviction, police responded with batons and water cannons. During the clashes, one of the police officers ...

2. Fight coal and gas like life depends on it — because it does

   a desperate search for food and water, then the servants of the fossil fuel mafia in parliament have a plan: ...

3. More nails in the coffin of the electricity market?

   government-owned Hydro Tasmania made windfall profits during the carbon price era by running down water storage ... an energy crisis because the water storage levels were too low.  Another example is Queensland ...

4. Australian government violates its own refugee policy

   similar stories. But they were stonewalled by DIBP with the “on water matters” mantra. As with so many ... detention centre and move to East Lorengau by cutting off the water and electricity. People who have moved ...

5. Chile's political system shaken by rise of new anti-neoliberal left

   AFPs (private administrators of pension funds), environmental struggles, to renationalise water and ...

6. The disaster of privatisation

   nationalise the railways, electricity and water and the Royal Mail. “Given the manifest failures of ...

7. Sydney residents rally against coal seam gas mining

   release the gas (pumping water, sand and chemicals into the earth to produce mini explosions to release ... independent US film "GasLand". The dangers include contamination of water supplies, irreversibly ...

8. Celtic fans show support for Palestine hunger strikers

   belongings, including the salt that the strikers use to sustain themselves along with water. Leaders of the ...

9. Argentina: Indigenous community launches anti-fracking fight

   involves the high-pressure pumping of water and chemicals into deep rock formations to release trapped gas. ...

10. Canadian mining giant spews poison into Argentina — again

    company claimed a “small quantity” spilled and did not make contact with water sources. The impact of ...

11. Break Free blocks Newcastle Harbour

    about 200 catamarans and kayaks moved constantly across the water, taking protesters out for stints on ... peaceful protests by thousands on the beach and the water. There was a minor police presence on the bay, ...

12. $50 billion for submarines but only $50 million for the reef

    $50 million in new projects to boost water quality, including efforts to keep sediment, fertilisers ... several billion dollars to save the Great Barrier Reef from water quality threats. A reef rescue plan, on ...

13. Hundreds protest BP's Great Australian Bight project

    across southern Australia on May 21 to protest BP's plans to drill for oil in the pristine waters of ... pristine waters of the Great Australian Bight. If it doesn't want to listen to the Australian people, ...

14. Indigenous people most affected by climate change

    water and food-borne diseases will increase dramatically. While the IPCC doesn’t specifically link this ... the salination of freshwater, changes in flowering patterns and fish moving to colder water”. Lisa ...

15. Save the reef – too important to lose

    board member is Jon Grayson, who is a one-sixth shareholder in Gasfields Water and Waste Services, ...   Larissa Waters, Australian Greens environment spokesperson, said: “We can’t let the Abbott and Newman ...

16. Refugee forum exposes eyewitness truth of bloodshed on Manus Island

    gets washed back to the beach where locals have to walk through to get to cleaner water. There are ... mountains of empty water bottles and other rubbish polluting the land area. The mainland police and security ...

17. Doctors tell banks to divest from fossil fuels

    Fossil fuel use and climate change threaten our most fundamental health rights of clean air, water and ... heat-related illness, more frequent and severe bushfires, extreme weather events, food and water scarcity, ...

18. Sri Lanka: Tamils targetted by fresh land grabs, abductions

    confiscation of their land or the pollution of their water supply, have been fired on by the police or the ... army. Three people were killed at Welweriya in August last year during a protest over water pollution. ...

19. ICAC finds Eddie Obeid corrupt again

    influencing the actions of two public servants over the water allocation for the farm. There is also the ... possibility of further findings over the Obeid family’s secret stake in Australian Water Holdings. Despite ...

20. We need more people, say Redfern Embassy activists

    Canberra in 1972, said water supply was also a problem. "We need people to carry water from the tap to ...

21. Forest protectors protest outside summit

    destruction. I come from an area of virgin rainforest, with clear running water, but companies have destroyed ... the water in only three years. It is an attempt to eliminate our land rights." PNG activist Eddie ...

22. Gloucester fracking protesters arrested

    high pressure to inject it with a chemical-water mixture. The end product contributes to greenhouse ... the Gloucester Protection Camp said: “We are opposed to the threats posed to the water supplies, the ...

23. Victorian candidates say renewables, not fossil fuels

    destroyed, water from aquifers is lost or contaminated, there is significant noise pollution and surface ... ponds of highly contaminated extraction water are created. Fracking is a desperate attempt by ...

24. Climate warnings coming true in Australia

    ozone depletion, fresh water use, change in land use, biodiversity loss, chemical pollution, atmospheric ... water, together with a loss in pollination. We were forewarned of this in 1972 when Limits to Growth, ...

25. Greg Hunt delays dumping on Great Barrier Reef

    said. “This would mean an immediate end to dredge dumping in the Reef’s World Heritage waters and no new ... government’s plans for mega ports, millions of tonnes of dredging and dumping in the Reef’s waters or its ...

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