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1. Sacrifice Zone

   – all are at risk.  This is a David and Goliath battle to save our land, air and water from destruction. ...

2. Deforestation affects mental health

   wrecking our water catchments, carbon stores, and wildlife habitat. The combination of native forest ... a major contributor to climate change. The disruption to the water cycle, particularly evaporation levels ...

3. Queensland government breaks Reef promise

   trans-shipping activities in Queensland waters and the Great Barrier Reef, which backs away from that promise. ... which are already under pressure from climate change, catchment water quality and existing port and ... to apply for a licence, and could not load ships in reef waters unless “the activity cannot be ...

4. A celebration of regenerative farmers

   which regenerative agriculture addresses: solar, water, nutrient recycling, biodiversity and the human ...

5. NSW elections: why principled preferences matter

   forward a decent plan to fix the dire water problem in drought-stricken north-western NSW, for fear of ...

6. Acland mine faces more legal challenges

   and water resources in the Darling Downs in Queensland from the $900 million Stage 3 expansion of New ... arguing that groundwater is relevant and that New Hope’s Acland mine has to get an associated water ... licence. We hope the Court of Appeal will agree that water is a basis for rejecting the mining application ...

7. 'We can't back down now'-- As Trump revives Dakota Access pipeline, Sioux vow to resist

   Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) that threatens to destroy water supply of the Standing Rock reservation in ... America great again,” he added, referring to the dramatic poisoning of water supplies that has hit Flint, ... treaty rights, contaminating our water and the water of 17 million Americans downstream... [Trump is] ...

8. Action halts Pilliga gas drilling

   to the rig from the road, calling for the protection of water resources and for Santos to leave the ... There's a moratorium on gas drilling in Sydney's water catchment: this aquifer is essential for the ... aquifers for water. I find it shocking that gas companies and our governments are happy to place at risk ...

9. US farmer gives warning over coal seam gas

   polluted ground water, polluted air and other effects of the gas industry. Fenton’s first meeting will be ... area. Two years later, the EPA found the water was contaminated with dangerous chemicals and methane ... caused by fracking for gas and warned Pavillion residents not to drink the water and to use a fan when ...

10. South Australia must avoid oil and gas risk

    gas in waters in the Great Australian Bight off South Australia as early as 2015. The Wilderness ... Society Campaigner Kathryn Warhurst said: “BP wants to drill in waters off South Australia that are far ... rougher, and far more remote than the Gulf of Mexico. That disaster was in 1.5 kilometres of water, here BP ...

11. Good news (for a change): Australia’s first solar floating plant begins working next month

    Jamestown. The solar panels will be kept cool by the water, helping prevent water evaporation by up to 90%, ... float on the water.” “The mass of water has a cooling effect on the panels and we also included ... a cooling system utilising the water body itself to be able to keep the solar panels … at a constant ...

12. Super Trawler is disaster waiting to happen for national marine life

    a super trawler in Australian waters. While the numbers at the rally were relatively few — about 60 to 70 ... fish in Australian waters. Legislation was passed by the then-Labor government, resulting in a 24-month ... delay on the super trawler being allowed to fish in Australian waters. However it was not a permanent ...

13. Protesters tell AGL to stop fracking

    is permitted to store waste water at a farm site near its CSG pilot field in Gloucester. It had been ... allowed to mix the produced water, a by-product of the fracking process which is notoriously high in ... salts, with irrigation water. That permit expired in April and it seems that AGL doesn't have ...

14. Territory gas boom to bust the environment

    gas by pumping sand, water and chemicals into the ground — a process commonly known as fracking. ... water supplies. The popular documentary Gasland, released in 2010, showed that some residents near ... water needs. The aquifers are under threat not just from contamination, but because shale gas mining ...

15. Illawarra CSG project frozen after big community campaign

    immediate threat of CSG development to the Nepean and Woronora drinking water catchments. What the ... development and fracking. The legislation still permits CSG exploration and mining in the drinking water ... the same area as PEL 442, and take in parts of the drinking water catchment. Apex Energy has applied ...

16. Solar cooperative to save jobs, climate

    solar hot water systems in each state of Australia. [It] is beginning the process in Morwell, Victoria, ... receive part of their remuneration as a solar hot water system on theirs, their children's or their ... solar hot water systems. If all of the state had solar hot water, it would cut 1.5 million tonnes of ...

17. NSW gov’t opens the floodgates to CSG, renews 22 exploration licenses

    contempt and their concerns about the protection of land and water over-ruled with the renewal of 22 ... the Sydney drinking water catchment, putting at risk water supplies for 4.2 million people and ... for a litany of environmental failures including contamination of soils and pollution of water ...

18. Bolivia grants rights to Mother Earth

    Earth also has the right to clean air and water, and to be free of all toxic and radioactive pollution, ... recent efforts in international law to extend the so-called free market to water and the atmosphere in ... Morales rode the wave of the Water Wars in 1999 and 2000 to the become Bolivia’s first indigenous ...

19. Giant rally held in Illawarra against coal seam gas

    part of a national day of coordinated actions under the theme “Defend Our Water”, and called for ... to communities, and drinking water, food, air and environment. "This community has made our ... large quantities of fresh water and using it to fracture underground systems is unsafe, and ridiculous ...

20. Landowners blockade farm to stop Santos coal seam gas project

    seam gas (CSG) before the potential risks to the region’s iconic water systems are known. This morning ... the outcome of the Namoi Catchment Water Study before escalating its operations. The independent water ... a matter of months for the outcome of a water study which could be the difference between saving one of the ...

21. 'Don't be a nuclear fool'

    It depletes budgets badly needed for health and human security, and it depletes water, which is vital ... up to 45 million litres of water a day. BHP Billiton are certainly not taking short showers or ... watering their garden on alternate days. The Roxby mine is using water like there is no tomorrow. The ...

22. New study points to inadequate testing of pesticides

    agricultural chemicals in concentrations that mirror levels found in ground water can significantly influence ... biological effects at current concentrations in ground water", said Warren Porter, lead author and ... in wide use worldwide and are the most ubiquitous contaminants of ground water in the United States. ...

23. Cholera: disease of the poor

    economic backwardness... In our country the poverty is so bad that drinking water is polluted with sewage, ... and therefore with germs. "A film was produced in Sweden which showed the water drunk by a baby ... from the market. The head of the authority in charge of water distribution, meanwhile, could be seen ...

24. Nattai wilderness under threat

    of the wilderness area. So far all appeals to the minister, the Water Board and the National Parks ... clearing for a market garden may have enormous repercussions for the quality of Sydney's water supply. ... in question lies within the Water Board's catchment area. By allowing this sort of development ...

25. Mining bosses in a spin over growing opposition

    construction, coal export terminals, new roads, land clearing, waste water storage and more. The CSG industry’s ... for waste water, gas pipelines and fire breaks. Claim: The total number of coal mines in NSW has risen ... mining licences have been approved despite the huge unknowns, such as the effects on health, water ...

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