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  1. Bylong Valley fights Kepco coalmine

    proposed mine site for 27 years. He said the mine would affect his farm鈥檚 water supply and, despite ... operating officer Bill Vatovec assured locals the mine would not affect the village鈥檚 water supply. 鈥淲e are ... very confident with the amount of water supply that we have,鈥 he said. 鈥淭he water licences are more ...

  2. Clearing our rainfall away

    that are contributing to it. "Vegetation does not just respond to rainfall. It recycles water from ... transferred to the atmosphere in water vapour. The resultant clouds also help shade and cool the surface. ... woodlands has also resulted in rising water-tables and brought long-buried saline ground-waters towards the ...

  3. New Vale mine disaster in Brazil is one more corporate failure

    deaths, cause serious impacts to land, water resources and biodiversity over 20 years and cost up to ...

  4. UNITED STATES: Arsenic from your tap

    reduced allowable levels of arsenic in US drinking water from 50 parts per billion (ppb) to 10 ppb. ... According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), arsenic in drinking water causes cancer of the ... skin, lungs, bladder and prostate in humans. Arsenic in drinking water is also linked to diabetes, ...

  5. Timbarra: Stuttering frog joins the fight

    endangered species, the use of water for ore processing and other activities. Timbarra is a sacred place for ... into the Clarence River water catchment, which provides water for thousands of people in northern NSW. ... that the mining corporation has produced was completed in less than a week. Approval for water ...

  6. WA to ban plastic bags

    in the environment, breaking into smaller and smaller pieces which contaminate soil and water and ...

  7. To end the deaths and abuse, refugees must be brought to Australia

    the detainees when authorities tried to move them late last year. Detainees had their water, food and ...

  8. United States: DAPL opponents鈥 fears come true as first spill confirmed

    that the pipeline jeopardizes its water supply and deserves further environmental review... 鈥淭he ... of Dakota Access says something pretty serious could go wrong. 鈥淪outh Dakota already faces water ... shortages and our livelihoods depend on water, from ranching and farming to healthcare. Do we have more ...

  9. John Pilger: The war on Venezuela is built on lies

    Jugs of water and melon juice were passed around. A guitar was played; a woman, Katarina, stood and ... sense," she told me. "We lived and died without real education and running water, and food we ...

  10. After Mueller: Trump鈥檚 presidency a product of US capitalism

    further encouraged by the findings. Trump is increasingly testing the waters over how far he can go ...

  11. Why students are striking for climate action on November 30

    record, we face the prospect of an uncertain and dangerous future. Climate change is 鈥渢hreatening water ...

  12. Murray-Darling basin plan fails 10 key tests

    NSW, the Central West Environment Council, Fair Water Use Australia, the National Parks Association of ... coordinator of Fair Water Use Australia. 鈥淭his will be a very expensive failure for the Australian taxpayer ... money if that is not achieved,鈥 he said. 鈥淣ational water reform in this country is going off the rails ...

  13. Write On: Letter to the editor

    you can bring water from the Kimberley we should be planning a mega city beside Lake Argyle and ... bringing the people to the water. Given that our problems in education, health and law and order are ... approach and populate our north-west. With global warming set to worsen Perth's water and energy needs ...

  14. Laffer curves and corporate monsters

    infrastructure 鈥 water and sewerage schemes in particular. The NSW government Prices Tribunal, in its recently ... released Interim Report on Water Pricing, reveals that the rate of return on water and sewerage schemes in ... domination are dealt with energetically. Last year a water consultant to Byron Council tried to manufacture ...

  15. Warragamba Dam rise threatens wilderness

    By Frances Kelly SYDNEY 鈥 A Water Board proposal to raise Warragamba Dam in the Southern Blue ... water which makes up Lake Burragorang. When the dam was originally constructed in the 1960s it drowned ... part submerged by an even greater desert of water, the worst crime of these engineers is that they want ...

  16. Iraq sanctions target children

    system of water purification and of water treatment, linked to the systematic destruction of Iraq's ... energy infrastructure, continues to lead to the development of illness carried by water pollution. To ... 253 central water-purifying installations in Iraq, each of them treating a minimum of 10,000 cubic ...

  17. Kevins Corner mine neither viable nor desirable

    yet there is no fully comprehensive cumulative impact assessment of water resources, regional ... are input, but modelling also involves theoretical constants, such as the flow of water across the ... such as Kevins Corner. It assumes that the amount of arable land, water and labour are limitless, and ...

  18. NSW government tries to silences environmentalists

    Environmental Defenders Office (EDO). The role of the SCA is to manage the drinking water of 4.5 million people ... contamination of water after several coal seam gas (CSG) exploration licences were granted inside the water ... catchment. With the water catchment under threat of CSG mining, the entire SCA board was replaced and the new ...

  19. New coal seam gas rules for NSW fall short, says Illawarra group

    miners will require a water licence to extract more than 3 million litres of groundwater a year; a ban on ... acknowledges the need for a moratorium on new fracking projects 鈥 given the risks it poses to water and ... naturally in coal seams and be present in water that must be drawn out of the seam to access the gas. ...

  20. Australians line up to defend land against CSG

    remaining up the mast overnight until January 14. He was denied food and water by police during his protest ... pre-existing ground water. He also demanded drilling be stopped until a full community consultation had taken ... ranging from chemicals polluting water supplies to the exploding gas well in Dalby. One protester said the ...

  21. Accident spurs Japanese anti-nuclear movement

    February 9, when a pipe broke inside the 19-year-old Mihama reactor. In pressurised light-water reactors ... like Mihama, water is super-heated by the nuclear reaction and then pumped through thin tubes into ... a second vessel. Heat from these tubes turns water in the second vessel into steam, which then powers ...

  22. Melbourne sewers collapsing

    proud of that", Melbourne Water's general manager, David Knipe, told the Age in December. He ... announced that Melbourne Water would review its major sewers, searching for "hot spots" in its ... sewerage maintenance. Yet Melbourne Water made an operating profit of $134.7 million last year. Sewerage ...

  23. Following Lana Del Ray, Of Montreal pull out of Israel festival, call for protests against Israeli crimes

    notable standout鈥 on the lineup after Lana Del Rey鈥檚 cancellation, Pink Floyd鈥檚 Roger Waters urged ... human rights anywhere,鈥 Waters said. US hip hop artists Pusha T and A$AP Ferg remain on the lineup, ...

  24. Trump's 'national emergency' power grab

    the United States or freeze Americans鈥 bank accounts.鈥 Trump is testing the waters with his national ...

  25. Houston left to drown in Harvey鈥檚 wake

    The聽 image of elderly people in a nursing home 聽sitting in waist-deep water is a shocking illustration ... reduce the risk of flooding. Concrete, by contrast, acts like a sluice to transmit and concentrate water ... Army Corps of Engineers opted for a聽 controlled release of a limited amount of water 聽to lower the ...

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