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Democracy and the environment
By Peter Montague The environmental movement is treading water and slowly drowning. There is ...
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Ariel Sharon: a man without a conscience
national infrastructure, which includes energy, land management, railways, roads, mines, water and ...
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Financial crisis: 'A whole other struggle is emerging'
above water with all this wealth being shifted to the rich? The answer is fairly obvious. If people ...
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Great Forest National Park human sign
the critically endangered Leadbeater鈥檚 possum, safeguard drinking water catchments and provide unique ...
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Ben Iota takes the rap road less travelled
Indonesians still use water. Did you revert to using toilet paper on your return? Unfortunately, yes. I am ...
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Climate movement 鈥 what next?
incremental campaigning based on watered-down goals is not working and yet what needs to be done is far bigger ...
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Australia's role in global corporate tyranny
24 hours 200 police and security guards armed with tear gas and water cannon. Our smug, reptile-like ...
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Soviet Coup: "Yeltsin knew"
doesn't hold water. But how do you explain all this? I can't see any way of explaining it unless you ...
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Belvoir updates Ibsen to highlight vital issues for our society
famed spa water is toxic. Rather than believe her, however, people seek to silence her. With the play ... water in her spa-resort home town has been contaminated by heavy metals from a sawmill during a recent ...
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Coal seam gas 鈥 dirtier than coal, worse than shale
surface waters, while taking rich farmland out of food production. But at least, its promoters argue, coal ... pumping in a high-pressure mix of water, sand and various (often toxic) chemicals. This process opens ... times by way of geological faults that allow it to vent to the atmosphere or end up in water supplies. ...
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United States: Oil begins to flow through Dakota Access pipeline
pipeline threatens water supplies and sacred sites on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, and violates ... close to the tribe's reservation. 鈥淭he fact that oil is flowing under our life-giving waters is ... local ecosystems, especially the Missouri River, the main water source for many tribes. The filling of ...
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El Salvador approves historic mining ban
country's surface water is polluted, mostly due to the mining industry. 鈥淭his is a historic day for El ... this country. It would only exacerbate the social conflict and level of water contamination we already ... sovereignty and clean water by denying OceanaGold, then Pacific Rim, a new permit to extract gold. The court ...
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In Brief
and waste water its Narrabri coal seam gas (CSG) exploration wells would produce in the next five ... for the Leewood CSG waste-water treatment plant. Santos has said only that it would 鈥渃ommit to within ... the approval for its waste-water treatment. Like the article? Subscribe to 麻豆传媒 now! You can ...
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Newcastle residents block coal seam gas drilling
the Tomago sand beds, which provide drinking water for Newcastle. 鈥淐oal seam gas drilling represents ... an unacceptable risk to our water, our floodplain and our local community," said local resident ... prevent drilling in this important drinking water source.鈥 Australia August 20, 2012 934 Residents of ...
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Victorian elections discussed
Better alternatives exist for meeting Melbourne's water needs, including household water tanks and ... storm water harvesting. But Walters said if a future government decided not to use the plant, it would ...
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Israel attacks mercy ship bring supplies to Gaza: take action now
being attacked by the Israeli Navy in international waters. The Dignity has been surrounded by at least ... for a complete list). At approximately 5am (UST) on December 30, well out in international waters ... international waters, and that the Israelis were preventing the ship from finding safe harbor. We heard heavy ...
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Uranium: Leave it in the ground!
an environmental disaster. Every day the Olympic Dam mine extracts 33 megalitres of water, at no ... charge, from the Great Artesian Basin 鈥 the source of water for many pastoral properties and unique ... ecosystems. Meanwhile, residents in South Australia pay almost $150 per year just to access water as well as ...
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Zero emissions or permanent drought?
predict when this drought will end". Ross Young, from the Water Services Association of Australia, ... drought and farmers under financial and water stress, food prices are bound to rise. Given that we have 20 ... the food and water future of Australia and the world." [Visit.] Australia September 14, 2007 724 ...
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Privately operated detention ship?
contract for a private boat that will be fitted with machine guns and used to patrol the waters off the ... accompanied by up to 30 customs and defence personnel, to take to the water in January next year." In an ... "claims that a prison ship planned for Australia's northern waters will detain people only for ...
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Waste time bombs for Hunter Valley
Anti-Sydney Tip group are opposing the dump. Col Maybury, of Kurri Kurri Landcare, has said that water at the ... a multimillion-dollar industry. The Hunter Water Corporation fears public health could be endangered by contamination of ... the lower Hunter's drinking water from a proposed super-dump in East Maitland. The proposed site ...
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INDIA: Supreme Court gives Narmada dam go-ahead
instead allowing dam waters to be raised a further two metres to 90 metres. The Sardar Sarovar Dam, when ... completed, will be the second largest in the world. Dam waters will inundate 37,000 hectares of forest and ... compensation. The Supreme Court's decision is the first to raise the water levels since an April 1999 ...
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'Trial' uranium mining in SA
a proposal to mine at Beverley when it could not guarantee the integrity of the water supply and surrounding ... capacity to rehabilitate ground water after acid ISL uranium mining." Amazingly, General Atomics has ... not been required to rehabilitate ground water after the trials, and has been given the right to ...
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Students help flood victims
unaffected 鈥 there is no land! Almost the whole country has been under at least one metre of water for two ... travelling from place to place in shaky wooden canoes, trying to survive as best they can. The water is ... stagnant and filled with garbage. Clean drinking water is unavailable. Children and the elderly are already ...
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Fear of famine in East Timor
of people". Food and water are in short supply for more than 7000 people on Atauro island, 20 ... village to fetch water or food", said Horta. Staple food crops such as corn, pineapples and bananas ... the territory (30,000 by recent estimates) have placed a big drain on its food and water supplies. ...
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Australia a leading trader in toxic waste
nevertheless continue in this country, Greenpeace returned four drums of polluted water to ICI headquarters in ... Melbourne on July 19. The water, transported from Homebush Bay in Sydney, was contaminated by ... from contaminated ground water under the ICI Botany site. Toxics campaign coordinator Matt Ruchel said ...