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  1. Scenic Rim landowners claim victory against CSG firm

    protect its water supplies, vital to agriculture, residents and the area鈥檚 famed ecology. 鈥淭he whole point ... water supplies, so we need to be absolutely certain our water will be safe,鈥 Larkin said. 鈥淒eciding to ... Energy planned to meet with interested parties later this month to discuss water monitoring, the ...

  2. Successful struggles for change give inspiration

    Bolivia, we visited the heads of the new water workers union at the state-run water company, Semapa. There ... water prices. When the police and army began a crackdown, Banderas was in the middle of the fight. He ... been only more recently that the water service has begun to improve because of the work of people in ...

  3. Gunns pulp mill to be fast-tracked

    protest pointed out that the pulp mill would have "devastating water supply effects". It would ... use 26 gigalitres (26,000 million litres) of water annually. According to the March 4 Launceston ... would be a colossal mistake. It would rob the people of West Tamar of their drinking water. Supplies on ...

  4. Palestine: Ship to challenge Gaza blockade

    sail for Gaza from Cyprus on August 5, expecting to be illegally detained as it enters Gazan waters ... . The waters off the Gaza Strip are patrolled by Israeli naval vessels, and Israel enforces ... territorial waters. The trip organisers think one of four things will happen to the ship. It may be stopped as ...

  5. NT's major rivers under threat

    planned in the Douglas-Daly region threatens to degrade the clear, clean waters of the Daly River. ... are being issued ahead of the release of the regional conservation, development and water management ... essential for the dry-season recharge of the river. The long-awaited water management plan is expected to ...

  6. Rio Tinto may pursue Jabiluka uranium mine

    environmental management. "The serious and systemic failure of water management practices at both Ranger ... addressed the dumping of contaminated water from a storage pond at Jabiluka into the mineshaft", Katona ... commitment to UNESCO last December to appoint a water specialist to the Office of the Supervising Scientist. ...

  7. South African union appeals for solidarity

    fight against the privatisation of water and sanitation services by local councils. Over the past six ... British-controlled Biwater conglomerate was the "successful bidder" for council-owned water and sanitation ... for water to the townships! The government is still spending money 鈥 that they supposedly don't ...

  8. Environmentalists warn against Roxby expansion

    dam was not built according to the design set out in the original EIS, and in 1994 a large water ... seepage was discovered. Water for the mine's operations is drawn from the Great Artesian Basin, an ... "Tripling this current water consumption will have a severe effect on the water supplies in the basin and ...

  9. SOUTH AFRICA: Grassroots struggles revive

    water and electricity cut-offs, that flow inevitably from the ANC's pro-capitalist economic ... free water and electricity. The lifespan of Masondo's promises was shorter than that of the ... West to the council's offices in Jabulani to protest against evictions, water and power cut-offs, ...

  10. CHINA: Galloping free market an environmental disaster

    common. The latter is a major cause of eutrophication, nutrient over-enrichment of water bodies through ... Air, Land and Water, China's pesticide production skyrocketed from 1000 tonnes in the early 1950s ... devastation of its air, land and water by such a high concentration of cowboy-style industrial production that ...

  11. Bad news on the Great Lakes

    to improve water quality in the lakes, with some success. Initially the concern was phosphorus, ... a fertiliser that can degrade water quality by causing excessive growth of algae and other plants, thus ... their joint Water Quality Agreement of 1978, the US and Canada defined a "toxic substance" as ...

  12. Socialist candidates: 'Roll back privatisation!'

    privatisations, but to also to fight to return essential services 鈥 such as electricity, water and ...

  13. HAITI: Violence escalates

    Aristide, have attacked trucks carrying bottled water and snatched boxes of milk and bags of rice from ...

  14. Sedaqatyar family: another tale of misery

    Andrew Hall Nearly five years after their boats entered Australian waters, 45 Afghan asylum ...

  15. On the box

    Water-Gate: The Sex Abuse Crisis In The Catholic Church 鈥 Documents 19 years of an emerging crisis in the ...

  16. Anti-war activist resigned from Labor Party

    "dead in the water", he explained that he had resigned from the Labor Party, after 20 years of ...

  17. Campaign against Windsor women's prison

    and Above water, a short film about a young mother jailed for social security fraud, who struggles to ...

  18. Woomera protests expose government's vicious refugee policies

    Australia was harshly suppressed by camp security and Australian Federal Police with tear gas and water ... was able to authorise the use of tear gas and water cannons under delegated powers to "maintain ... and water cannons used by the security guards and police. When was the last time you heard of water ...

  19. Adelaide's feast of queer culture

    drama Bent to the feel-good comedy, It's in the Water. "QueerDoc" is a weekend of ...

  20. Marine park threat

    western shore, where the coastal waters form Ningaloo Marine Park. Much of the area is on the register of ...

  21. Energy crisis tests Russian miners' movement

    subsidies and investment programs, it runs a definite risk: that energy and water supply systems will cease ... camp stoves. Hot water had been unavailable since mid-April, and now in many cases even cold water ... used water are no longer functioning and pipes are emptying straight into buildings' basements... ...

  22. Radio highlights

    13, 10am. The Listening Room 鈥 The History of Water/Huyen Thoai Mot Giong Nuoc 鈥 This program explores ...

  23. Radio Highlights

    stories. ABC FM Stereo, Fri Oct 9, 11.30 a.m. The Oysters of the Ever-Smiling Water 鈥 The ancient stories ...

  24. The camera as accomplice

    a bizarre combination of music, poetry, philosophy, bigotry and extreme violence. Sylvania Waters and Black ...

  25. 10 questions with Provocalz about his new EP, 鈥楪.O.D.鈥

    while trying to keep your own head above water.聽I聽don't have a solution,聽I聽just know it鈥檚 wrong and ...

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