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Indigenous people oppose Beverley uranium mine
royalties will provide infrastructure like schools and running water. Other people in Australia regard these ... being watered down to prevent indigenous people exercising their rights. "It's clear that the ...
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Shell's policy of blood for oil
weeks, leaving the banks of the mangrove waterway a charred ruin and the waters devoid of fish, the ... required under Nigerian law. Air and water pollution have caused crop yields in the delta to decline ...
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Can green business save the planet?
clean water. By leaving the decision to the market, the "sustainable development" advocates ... environmental costs associated with the new technologies were externalised. Since air, water and land quality ...
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Has the Tamils' struggle ended?
been deprived of basic facilities such as electricity, water, medicine and food items by the Sri Lankan ... in government-controlled areas by offering housing, food, electricity, medicine, water supply etc ...
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No military aid for PNG!
killed six people as they attempted to leave the waters of the Solomon Islands. The BRA, however, said ... a Solomons police officer. On July 3, a second attack by a patrol boat in Solomon Islands waters was ...
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Land rights under attack
expressed fears about the consequences of heavy shipping on the pristine waters of the gulf. "The most ... waters", he said. "This is why the pipeline to Karumba and heavy shipping as part of the project plans ...
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The real costs of India's economic liberalisation
Cuts to the water supply, food, energy sources and sanitation put greater pressure on women who usually ... Prawn farms not only absorb very little labour but the inlet of brackish water degrades the earth. ...
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Equality is not 'special treatment'
clean water, education and health. We're not asking to be treated any differently from the rest of ... accessing drinking water, and the living areas often swim in sewage. We put up with substandard education ...
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Greenhouse gases: time to act
across the equatorial Pacific switch direction, pushing warm water east across the Pacific towards the ... 60% by 2100. Cholera, which spreads with warmer coastal and estuarine waters, will also become ...
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Stop environmental racism in Nigeria: Boycott Shell!
Nigeria was the site of 40% of Shell's oil spills worldwide — 7.4 million litres. Drinking water in ... out, yet the people have no electricity, no running water, no hospitals, no schools. It costs Shell ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
complacency on this issue. Land degradation, species extinction at the fastest rate in the world, water and ... try and save animals which have "dreadful names like the plain rat, the false water rat, and the ...
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Shock troops of the New World Order
positions, disabling communications towers and water wells, and using lasers to target Scud missile launchers ... central and west-central Iraq. Navy SEALS dropped from helicopters on 25 occasions into Gulf waters to ...
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South African unions: 'democracy is more than elections'
about jobs, houses, electricity, running water, decent health care, free education, the emancipation of ... provision of running water and electricity for all, expansion of public education, mass health care and land ...
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Shellharbour marina: an exercise in disaster
water beach adjoining the entrance to Lake Illawarra was destroyed in the early '70s by the ... council officers revealing that the water is not polluted, council has erected a sign forbidding swimming ...
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Gay and lesbian lobby debates 'queer politics'
a staid way". 'Watering down' Ken Davis of Lesbian and Gay Solidarity sees nothing new in ... a "very dangerous watering down of lesbian and gay identity which we've built at great cost and ...
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Ok Tedi disaster: pollution for profit
ago, claim the water in the river system is undrinkable and poisonous to people, fish, plants and the ... Robie, writing in the April 15, 1992, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, related that the International Water Tribunal, ...
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Calculated US deception on Omega base
the surface of the water, so ballistic missile submarines in particular need to surface in order to ... receive signals. By comparison, the Omega signals penetrate not only water but also sea ice to at least 15 ...
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South African budget: transformation postponed?
11.5% (to A$11.6 billion) and pensions by between 5% and 6%. The Department of Water Affairs, ... responsible for providing clean drinking water to all South Africans, gets an increase of 13.9% (to A$187 ...
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South Africa grapples with apartheid's environmental legacy
into the ground water. Imported toxic waste, soil degradation, deforestation, air pollution, water ...
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Selling the air: the trade in 'pollution rights'
protection — in which people expected government to protect their clean air and clean water — is out. A new ... that clean air and clean water are fundamental human rights, in the same category as the right to be ...
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Prisons for profit
— the major public utilities: gas, water and electricity. At the same time the state is bolstering the ... just the three issues of gas, water and electricity. It is an attack on civil and human rights and ...
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Write on
including pollution and the deliberate killing of turtles for profit outside Australian territorial waters ... in Queensland waters. Unfortunately this would cause a stir between the departments of Environment ...
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After Aidex
said they would "leave me at the bottom of Lake Burley Griffin for the water police to worry ... breathe. This lasted until he went into spasms; then the cops tipped a bucket of water on him. He suffered ...
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Czechoslovakia's dilemma:
uninsulated hot water pipes expend much of their heat to melt the snow and the ground through which they run. ... the 1400 MW pressurised water reactor (PWR) developed by Siemens and Framatome. Some estimates say 50% ...
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Accidents are inevitable: The fuel with no future
in the waters off Cervantes and Jurien Bay. Chemical dispersants can be extremely damaging to the ... the impact of big oil spills. Some of the components of oil will evaporate or dissolve in the water ...