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  1. Greenpeace stops Israeli boat from dumping toxics

    Six Greenpeace swimmers jumped into the water and formed a human barrier to prevent the Aribel from ... sailing to international waters to dump waste containing a cocktail of arsenic and heavy metals like ... tonnes of toxic sludge into international waters of the Mediterranean Sea every year. It also discharges ...

  2. Protests greet Goss mega-dam plans

    Nathan dam proposed for the Dawson river. "We can provide water for a power station, and for ... development would be a series of smaller dams to provide water without destroying the environment. I'd ... construction of large catchments due to the loss of fertile land, social dislocation and losses of water ...

  3. Can the market clean up the dry cleaning industry?

    in fat and not in water (and therefore they tend to accumulate in fatty tissues as they pass through ... the drain along with process water. It should be no surprise, then, that perc can be found almost ... everywhere in the environment, and in much food and water. At 577 sites in the US, perc could be measured in ...

  4. Search for the singing whale

    were more than 30 species of whales in the waters migrating to the reef. "There used to be about ... different notes." At about noon, the boat's motor ceased and we waited in the tossing water for an ... touring the waters past Coogee and onwards. Eventually we turned and headed for home. Still, as a chance ...

  5. As Trump complains, Mexicans support Central American refugees

    disaster. It was hard to walk a block in this town [in Chiapas] without seeing crates of free bottled water ...

  6. Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners: Judge's decision doesn鈥檛 change the facts

    now we need all our supporters who care about our rights to help us protect our land, waters and ... and were prepared for the decision. Our Council has vowed to continue to defend our lands and waters ...

  7. Billionaire insists reef makes a good toxic waste dump

    companies, the Yabulu nickel refinery, to be allowed to dump millions of litres of toxic water into the Great ... should reject Palmer鈥檚 application. Palmer argued that dumping the water into the ocean is the only ... solution and denied that the water, which is full of metals and nitrogen, would be harmful to the ...

  8. Linc Energy fined $4.5 million for environmental destruction

    caused rock to fracture and allowed the escape of toxic gases which contaminated the air, soil and water ...

  9. Farmers to lead big anti-CSG rally on May 1

    water resources from the coal and CSG industries. The draft policy fails protect any area of NSW from ... Fiona Simson said on April 3. 鈥淧rotecting our precious land and water is an issue which affects everyone ... sustainability of our land, water, environment and the future of other vital industries and regional communities. ...

  10. 麻豆传媒 TV: Australian solidarity with Bersih 3.0

    people arrested along with widespread use of water cannon and tear gas. Justice for the Malaysian people- ...

  11. Protesters stage 'die-in' at fossil fuel industry conference

    the Great Barrier Reef, the energy extraction industry is placing strain on our land, water and sea ...

  12. Illawarra, Sydney human sign protests to slam CSG mining

    the Illawarra have been renewed, including one in the drinking water catchment. [Barry] O'Farrell ... promised to ban exploration and mining in the drinking water catchment. This was 鈥 quite clearly 鈥 a lie. ... land, water and communities at risk [and make] it clear that the government thinks CSG profits are more ...

  13. CSG questions go unanswered in Newcastle

    answering simple questions about the risks to our water supply, earthquake shocks and well casing. 鈥淭he site ... supply, water quality and if there will be any impacts.聽 "The Newcastle community doesn't want ... Dart Energy experimenting with our water supply. Dart's drill now and figure out the answers later ...

  14. Protest over land council mining plans

    to riverways and water reserves, water that we actually drink. The fear of further contamination is ... bottom of dams and sucked the water out of it. That water is then contaminated, you can鈥檛 recover it.鈥 ...

  15. How we can beat the dirty mining giants

    harmful impacts on water resources, human health and local environments. A network of anti-CSG campaign ... go ahead, a contradictory position. 鈥淚t does not protect the land and water of NSW communities. It ... does not rule out CSG development in drinking water catchments.鈥 The federal government followed suit ...

  16. No need for refugee deaths at sea

    several boats that have gone missing in or near Australian waters, said: 鈥淭he alarm was raised with the ... spotted floating in the water from the boat, which had been reported days earlier as being 鈥榦verdue鈥 on ... its journey from Indonesia.鈥 Aerial rescue eventually located 13 bodies in the water from the capsized ...

  17. Freedom flotilla sails into West Papua

    a 5000 kilometre journey beginning in Lake Eyre, in which sacred water and ashes were carried and ... protest. During the momentous ceremony Arabunna elder Uncle Kevin Buzzacott presented the sacred water from ... the water. We must bring the water and the fire, the love and the music to heal the country and move ...

  18. Crowd grills company on coal seam gas

    drill sites and uses less water than coal seam gas mining in Queensland. He said Dart 鈥渄oesn鈥檛 use ... fracking鈥 鈥 which involves blasting the coal seam with water and a toxic chemical mix at high pressure. ... Weijer said 鈥渢he 鈥榩roduced water鈥 [from the mining process] is not toxic 鈥 just salty 鈥 around 20% of the ...

  19. Rally supports Sea Shepherd activists

    waters. Sea Shepherd's website said the men boarded to peacefully protest against whaling and ... for a whaling fleet, which had moved from Antarctic waters into Australian territory, against ... has done little to stop Japanese whaling vessels working in Australian waters. Last month, the British ...

  20. Group vows blockade if coal seam gas work starts

    we went through over a decade 鈥 mining or any other activity to threaten water resources. He also ... words, while positive, are still at odds with reality. Water resources are at risk and the government is ... enough evidence that CSG mining brings risks. 鈥淭he contamination of water systems and supplies and ...

  21. NSW farmers take on BHP Billiton

    community consultation and preliminary water studies on the area's aquifers 鈥 which water the ... (CCAG), "We cannot afford to have these water supplies damaged, cracked, polluted and drained away. ... The aquifers grow our food and provide water for people, animals and the environment. The miners do ...

  22. Desalination EES 'stage-managed'

    September 4, state water minister Tim Holding visited Wonthaggi to meet with the community. He was met by ... it", Andrea Bolch, president of Your Water Your Say (YWYS), told 麻豆传媒 Weekly. The EES is more ... of the water augmentation options available to Melbourne and... does not include costing information ...

  23. Sam Watson, campaigning for justice

    a nuclear- and uranium-free Queensland. The Greens' Larissa Waters managed to capture over 19% of the ...

  24. Special treatment for pulp mill project

    also been revealed that Labor Premier Paul Lennon is considering funding the $60 million water and ... that will mean the pulp mill's annual requirement of 26,000 megalitres of water will cost the ... $1.05 million if this water was used to generate power to sell to Victoria at the average 2007 rate. ...

  25. Burmese protesters imprisoned

    expression and assembly". "Three people were sentenced merely for giving water to monks on the ...

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