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Blockade, rallies to stop Jabiluka
highly contaminated water from the Ranger uranium mine because it had failed to calculate the output of ... contaminated water over the life of the mine. In January 1997, ERA was caught dumping contaminated water ...
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Picking up the pieces in East Timor
the water pumps had been stolen, no water for washing. Most people were wandering around in shock, ... they have ever seen. Except for the movement of rice and drinking water, there was little else ...
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NATO's war against civilians
destruction NATO bombing has caused to bridges, highways and water, electrical and communications systems, as ... people. We can't get food to them or water or diesel for farming. And just now the most important ... said. 'Summer is coming, and there is not enough clean water.'" Multiply this description ...
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Arabunna people: Stop Roxby mine!
into Arabunna country to extract water for the mining process. Arabunna people have never consented to ... WMC accessing their water or land. In order to secure access, WMC signed an agreement with the ... are buyers of uranium from Roxby Downs and are using my sacred water from the Lake Eyre Basin to treat ...
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Fighting back against the Liberals: the Canberra experience
attempt to stop the corporatisation of ACT Electricity and Water (ACTEW) in mid-1995. Second was the fight ... and water charges were increased immediately. Budget cuts The second major challenge by the government ... like the one in Western Australia. This was watered down to a blockade of the Legislative Assembly, on ...
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Worsening plight of Palestinian refugees
running water, no electricity and no phone lines, the community support system is breaking down under the ... immigration" and the Arab world. The conditions in the camps — the lack of water and electricity may be related ... to the current minister of electricity and water, Elie Hubayqa, who has been linked to the 1982 ...
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Hindmarsh Island dispute: what was 'fabricated'?
and Mundoo Islands, the waters of the Goolwa channel, Lake Alexandrina and the Murray Mouth within the ... the cosmos which supports their existence". "The waters are a life force to the Ngarrindjeri ... women, whether past or present, and should anything cover these waters, then the strength there will be ...
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Study finds environment hazards are related
warming must be suspected). The climate warming has had significant impacts on water quality in the lakes. ... turn allows UV-B to penetrate deeper into the water, thus further reducing DOC. The present study ... concerned. Preview Anything that clarifies the water in an already-clear lake, thus allowing ultraviolet to ...
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A huge corporate experiment on the public
categorises it as a "possible human carcinogen". Atrazine is found in much of the drinking water in ... Much of the well water in the midwest now contains alachlor, and its use continues unabated. ... communities on Cape Cod in Massachusetts have perc in their drinking water; a study in 1994 revealed that ...
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The problem with 'green power'
energy expenditure within the home is for heating and hot water. Rental property is often provided with ... no form of heating, inadequate insulation and electric hot water systems which use the day rate ... electric heaters and hot water systems can be three times higher than those which use natural gas. The ...
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Environmental reporting
extremely hot, two pipes are positioned so that water can be pumped into one of the pipes, the injection ... pipe. Once it hits the hot rock below it, the water boils and comes up the other pipe as super heated ... water ready to be flashed to steam. The steam can then be used to turn a turbine, for heating, to ...
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Indonesia, US miners plunder West Papua
to a 360-metre water-filled pit. It was the first major mining contract signed between the Suharto ... 1984, the results of which have never been made public. The company claims water quality is safe, but ... change the natural water flow and create a flood plain near the coast which extends over at least 15 ...
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Environmental crisis on the farm
drinking water supplies downstream. Some 1.3 million tonnes of salt flow through the Murray River each ... year; in some dry seasons, the salt level in the drinking water in Adelaide is higher than the levels ... Virtually every river in the southern two-thirds of the continent is suffering from removal of water for ...
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Northern Land Councillor says 'no' to uranium mining
we're not going to allow contaminated water to be released into the natural environment, but it has been ... numerous arguments with the Northern Territory government in relation to the release of waters from Ranger. ... why don't you drink the water, and the fool did. You can say it will be all right but we just ...
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Lateral thinking from Broken Hill
salt bush and blue bush are being used to address water logging and salinity problems in the black soil ... water. A century ago, the far western townships of Wilcannia and Menindee were river ports for paddle ... mayor. "Far too many phosphates have been put in and too much water taken out by inappropriate crops ...
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WA battle over public services
community. Bus and rail services, the Water Authority, health care, fire brigade, building maintenance — all ... its river ferry services sold off to Perth Water Transport, and the buses are next on the list, under ... their new title of MetroBus. The WA Water Authority (WAWA) is losing major work such as sewerage ...
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In the slums of Jakarta: workers fight to organise
water supply, so that workers are forced to buy expensive bottled water. Pluit is one of the most ... to Pluit, we passed the harbour, which looked like a huge open sewer. The water was black, and ...
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Mammoth tasks confront Soviet greens
There's everything here — air, water, soil pollution, contamination of foodstuffs. People haven't ... magnitude? The catastrophe with the Aral Sea, which is dying because the water has been taken off for ... water supplies were very aggressively developing canal systems, completely disrupting the hydrological ...
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U.S. targets last wilderness
experience of the place like this: "Here, water is everywhere, heavy clouds camouflage glaciers, fog ... raising mountains of smooth water... streams of dark fluid mud sing under the snow and undermine our ... whales can be found in the waters surrounding Antarctica: blue, fin, humpback, sei, minke, southern ...
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Time to look seriously at alternative fuels
water system, providing up to 80% of water heating in different systems. Natural underground hot water ...
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Toxic Waste:Return to sender
times the allowable limit for phenolic compounds provided under the Clean Waters Act. Phenols are used ... I suggest that the Policy Branch (Water) look at this and maybe come up with a realistic figure." ... conditions on the licence and seek advice from the Clean Waters Branch Policy rather than passing the ...
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Developers flatten endangered species bill
Commonwealth lands and waters, agencies and approval processes. Many of Australia's nationally endangered ... vetoed. Retreat Kelly began to buckle to pressure when she accepted a watered down version of the draft ... the 180-day period was immediately watered down to 90 days. Provisions giving the public the right to ...
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The legacy of Chernobyl
through the roof, and streams of water run through the corridors, carrying disintegrated fuel. In the ... force contaminated water out from under the reactor. While engineers contemplate structures that will ... even greater extent on the Soviet- style pressurised water reactor known as a VVER. VVER reactors in ...
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Sickness and death from Indian nuclear plants
uninspiring to downright terrifying, with continual breakdowns and heavy water leakages. Last September, ... recorded educational status, social and caste status, occupation, pesticide usage, source of water, method ... water from downstream of the plant. "Many of the villagers are casual workers, and they do all the ...
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United States: Victory at Standing Rock
vowing to form a human shield around the water protectors, who have faced an increasingly violent police ... from all nations that came together in support of the water, in support of future generations, because ... and that a pipeline leak could contaminate the Missouri River, which serves as a water supply for ...