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  1. A black struggle against white dust

    and their community were poisoned by asbestos 鈥 which contaminated the air, food, water, ground and ... contaminated with asbestos. The community had no electricity or sewerage, and the only source of water was the ...

  2. After Kirner: Libs plan jobs holocaust

    Melbourne Water Corporation.) Melbourne Water's tunnelling operation is to be closed down or sold off, ...

  3. The garbage that glows in the dark

    of high rainfall next to high quality sources of water in a rapidly growing suburban area on the edge ... contamination in drinking water. In the UK, NIREX has abandoned shallow land disposal. Other methods of disposal ...

  4. International piracy

    suggesting the Vincennes was inside Iranian territorial waters at the time. US Navy Commander David Carlson ... professional atmosphere" prevailing aboard the Vincennes. Reverse it. A Libyan vessel inside US waters ...

  5. Who calls the NGO tune?

    point was a recent water sanitation program in the Philippines funded by an Australian agency. The ... pumps were sighted, and water-related epidemics continued, killing up to three children a day during the ...

  6. ESD process: was it a waste of time?

    are worried that the process will drag on and the recommendations will be further watered down if the ... and solar energy for hot water) 鈥 as demanded by the conservation groups. The ACF/WWF applaud these ...

  7. South Australian 鈥渆nergy intervention鈥: a gift to the gas industry

    imperil their underground water supplies and those of their neighbours. What about renewables? Unlike the ...

  8. Five new books ecologists and socialists should look out for

    inland and will lay waste to critical infrastructure, such as water-treatment and energy facilities, ...

  9. Brazil: BHP Billiton under pressure for Samarco compensation

    tailing dam wall burst. About 700 people lost their homes and polluted waste water 鈥 which the companies ...

  10. Mantle Mining abandons coal leases

    greenfields coalmining would have on their region. 鈥淭he potential for water contamination, destruction of ...

  11. Toxic sugar is only half the story

    and encouraged the wider use of fluoride in drinking water. During the second half of the 20th ... industrially-synthesised chemicals that are transmitted through food and water and which make genetic changes permanent in ... lining water pipes for industrial purposes. The plastic is clear and tough and was used in a variety of ...

  12. Behind the corporate takeover of Australian agricultural land and farms

    minimise bushfires and keep our water catchments clean. A Land Trust is also needed to buy land off ... in tradeable water entitlements, wasting and polluting our water and closing down our food processing ... investment in agriculture. Instead of moving to ban speculation in water, the Senate standing committee has ...

  13. The dark side of the 鈥榞reen economy鈥

    argument: 鈥淓cosystems provide trillions of dollars in clean water, flood protection, fertile lands, clean ... its services? The same way we would electricity, potable water, or natural gas. We pay for it.鈥 The ... resources: minerals before they are mined, forests before they are felled, water while it is still in the ...

  14. Japan: Nuclear industry played russian roulette

    earthquake. What no one had bargained for in this instance was a titanic wall of water that would overwhelm ... temperatures rising in the core. As temperatures rise, the coolant water that surrounds the core is boiled off, ... as the water is boiled and turns into super-heated steam, it has to be vented to the outside. It was ...

  15. Indigenous walk-off spokesperson: 'We need to take the power back'

    working on getting buildings up and once we get the bore drilled for our water, more people from the towns ... if not thousands of years. This was our watering hole long before it was built into a stock-route ... permaculture systems. That you can build your own mud brick hut, recycle water using dirty water to flow back ...

  16. Capitalism, agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternative

    industrial agriculture requiring single-crop (monoculture) production, heavy use of water and massive ... and into lives of chronic hunger 鈥 and at the cost of poisoning air and water, and steadily decreasing ... water and resources, and the people affected must have the right to know and to decide about food ...

  17. Who can claim that we have not killed them?

    tub Palapa began taking on water. Its distraught cargo of 438, mostly Afghan, families and teenage ... months. Try to imagine the dark, the lack of water and food. Stumbling to find the toilet block and ... terminal, but when it dies, we'll have to keep repairing Nauru's only source of water ...

  18. Workers resisting in Iraq

    rubbish rotting in the streets, uncollected. People have to buy water. If they're lucky enough to ... have a water filter, then they could drink the water from the tap, but then it was saline and ... disgusting. Poor families are forced to drink the tap water if you can't afford to buy it. This water ...

  19. Nuclear testing in the Pacific: a scientist's view

    sea water. However, it will be reconcentrated, to some extent, by its passage through the food chain. ... Leaching from the underground test site could enable contaminated water to reach the biosphere in a time ... explosion chambers is paramount to the containment of the water that flows into the cavities after the test. ...

  20. ANC discusses challenge of women's emancipation

    water, education. Those issues are all addressed by our RDP. "In the first place we want to ensure ... those priorities 鈥 water, electricity, housing, wages 鈥 for women are really at the bottom rung of the ... "One of the focus groups said, 'Yes, we want water, but even if we get water, we want a say in ...

  21. Developer ignores concerns about toxic site in Fawkner

    from toxic water seeping up from the mine. Then there was the case of hundreds of residents having to ...

  22. Sport and politics have always mixed

    couldn鈥檛 see why a Black man couldn鈥檛 drink the same water from a water fountain, take the same bus or go ...

  23. Homeless pay the price for landlord capitalism

    shelters. During the fire, neighbours ran out with buckets of water, but the fire was too large. Locals ...

  24. Socialist Alliance鈥檚 new animal welfare policy embraces animal rights

    of all animals, the cessation of trophy hunting of animals including Australian water birds and ...

  25. Naomi Klein Delivers Sydney Peace Prize Lecture

    extravagantly from the auctioning off of public wealth, the looting of our land, water and air, and the ...

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