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The corporate interests behind Howard's land grab
government to water-down the rights of Aboriginals to veto mining on traditional lands in 1987, and it's ... people rely upon for water, and the Supreme Court ruled that there had been insufficient consultation ... as in situ mining, which can poison the water table of a whole state. The MacArthur River dispute was ...
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Iraq: US seeks deal for long-term occupation
water and largely powerless, an Iraqi official said on Sunday in a grim assessment of services in the ... capital that water pipes, where they exist, are so old that it is not possible to pump water at ...
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Letters to the Editor
to corruption or to a naive belief that there will always be plenty of water we are being given ... water out of the system by buying back their allocations and ensuring that that water is never allocated ...
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Letters to the Editor
GLW #730) displays a remarkable right-wing capacity for slander and muddying the waters of debate. ... altogether. We have established parliamentary enquiries into Australia's water and energy security. We ... committed to woodchipping the Otways, pumping water over ridges and blasting open Port Phillip Bay to ...
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INDIA: The agony of Bhopal
allowed water to flow freely into the largest tank of MIC. Exposure to this water soon led to an ... watering, we had froth in our mouths. Somebody was running this way and somebody was running that way, some ...
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In brief
cookware, as well as water- and stain-resistant coatings on paper, carpets and furniture, have been found in ... federal law by hiding a birth defect study and water contamination data. Chinese officials plan to study ... foreign investment in the oil and gas industry, water and other natural resources. Another topic causing ...
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Science minister fails the NT nuclear dump test
environmental impacts, particularly water tables, is that these three sites do lend themselves to the storage of ... Ridge area sometimes gets rainfall of more than two metres in two months and that water falling on the ... having an impact on ecosystems and an impact on an aquifer that is used for drinking and for other water ...
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Oppose Labor's uranium push
plan. The mine currently uses more than 30 million litres of water daily from the Great Artesian Basin ... 100 million more litres of water a day, which could also be drawn from the Murray River and ... desalinated water from the Spencer Gulf. Despite its stated opposition to new mines, the Rann government has ...
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CANADA/QUEBEC: Massive police crackdown against FTAA protesters
countless rounds of police teargas cannisters, rubber bullets and attacks by water cannon. In the months ... gas, rubber bullets and water cannon at them. A handful of protesters then retaliated with Molotov ... of their windows for protesters to fill their water bottles and douse their faces from CS gas." ...
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PALESTINE: The reality of Israel's 'generous offer'
over its borders, airspace and economic and water resources. In fact, it would have consisted of 64 ... a self-governing modality for the Palestinians, instead of reaching accords on sovereignty, borders, water ... Jerusalem, rights of refugees, water and borders. [From Socialist Worker, weekly paper of the US ...
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Why they have to lie about refugees
being thrown into the water." The minister replied: "We'd better not see the video ... following the incident, Reith released photos to the media that showed asylum seekers in the water, claiming ... and depicted a navy officer rescuing refugees who had jumped into the water. Some mainstream ...
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Australia to violate maritime law
freighter passing through Indonesian waters, told Kuala Lumpur that when his ship had stopped off Vietnam ... their waters and on to the next country, towing them out to the high seas. Singapore, Taiwan and Japan ... absolved as soon as the boat is back in international waters. The Howard government is also spearheading ...
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Afghan refugees: 'Don't send us back to war!'
"many instances where people would have died without humanitarian assistance, especially emergency water ... people in the countryside have access to clean water. In the third week of June, the number of refugees ... could be put in peril if the lack of shelter and drinking water in war-damaged villages and towns forced ...
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Write On: Letter to the Editor
reason given for Australia's alleged inability to cope with more people is lack of water. The ... excessive consumption of water from our rivers does indeed cause problems such as salinity. But this has ... crops are exported. The solutions are to improve the efficiency of water use and/or reduce the area ...
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Oil giants, military attack Niger delta communities
region. Communities do not have electricity, running water, decent roads, schools or hospitals. Since the ... Ijaw were incensed that Chevron had cut a channel through a creek that supplied drinking water ... , contaminating it with sea water. The company called in the feared paramilitary Mobile Police, known as ...
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Waste trade — who pays?
closure, the fodder and the ground water in this village are still as contaminated as ever. The children ... ground water, cattle fodder and soil, but many sprang up again, this time in neighbouring states. ... possible explosions, toxic fumes and contaminated water. A 1997 study by the Punjab Pollution Control Board ...
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S26: 'Prague was ours today'
the centre we were met by a sea of riot police and trucks with water cannon guns on top. Behind the ... front. Suddenly I heard extremely loud shots as police fired their water cannons and tear gas. The riot ... and were then denied food, water or phone calls to their legal advisors. There were many activists ...
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EAST TIMOR: Unanswered questions on transition
its urban water and sanitation support activities to the transitional administration at the end of ... September. Oxfam is concerned that, as a result, water and sanitation staff will be reduced from 40 to five ... for each district (almost all water sanitation and irrigation projects have been handled by NGOs); and ...
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EAST TIMOR: New party faces election challenge
has no doors or windows, just gaping spaces which are being filled in with bamboo bars. Water has to ... fresh water is a problem here, with bores needing to be sunk more than 20 metres deep. If the ... cooperative is to succeed, an assured supply of fresh water would be needed to irrigate the land. In the ...
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Russian budget-cutters court environmental disaster
worst case scenario, if the power or water supply failed, we could face an explosion, a fire and the ... faced with having its telephone lines, water and electricity cut off. In privatised industries as in the ... radioactive waste, at a minimum, would cost [US]$700 billion. To clean up the drinking water supply would cost ...
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Widespread oppression of women workers in Indonesia
Water is scarce in these quarters, and workers are often forced to buy expensive bottled water. A study ... of women workers in Malang found that 68% had no washing facilities or running water at home. Not ...
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Landfills are dangerous
water supply with TCE, PERC and other chlorinated solvents. A 1989 study by the Environmental Protection ... drinking water supplies that had been contaminated by a waste site. Leukemia and bladder cancer are the ... mechanism of the hazard remains unknown. Is the biggest hazard air or water pollution? No one knows, but the ...
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Workers hit as garage sale of Thailand gears up
micro-credit to the unemployed by B300 million; maintaining public works in water supply, irrigation and ... Thailand, Regional Airport Co, Metropolitan Water Authority and Provincial Water Authority. The big inroad ...
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Frogs, alligators and pesticides
harming their immune systems. Frogs raised in water with a pH of 5.5 had significantly more bacteria in ... their spleens, and a significantly higher death rate, than frogs raised in waters with a pH of 7.0. ... in 1997 took an unprecedented action, banning 84 herbicide products for use near water because of ...
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US sanctions: a weapon of mass destruction
infrastructure, including water treatment plants, the sewerage system, hospitals, food processing and ... chlorine for water purification, fertilisers and pesticides for agriculture, and spare parts for water and ...