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1. LIVE BLOG: Illawarra Coal Seam Gas conference

   BTEX chemicals because they can occur in produced water, even if not used. “We’ve seen evaporation ... What cost to our health, to our water, to our environment? Look at asbestos industry, and the damage ... around CSG, starting with water. “ Any extraction technique produces contaminated water. “Salt is the ...

2. Western Sydney close to winning against waste incinerator plan

   schools. Prospect Reservoir, part of Sydney’s drinking water catchment and only five kilometres from the ...

3. Linc Energy found guilty of serious environmental harm

   escape. Its operations left water polluted to the point it was unfit for stock to consume. In 2015, the ...

4. Victoria the first state to outlaw fracking

   gas mining because of the potential contamination danger to water resources and agricultural land. At ... than five years to get their area and the water catchment protected. We need a similar ban on fracking ... There is no real way of delivering protection to food-growing areas and our precious water supplies in ...

5. Jeremy Corbyn condemns Israeli crimes: 'The silence of international powers must end'

   are reliant on humanitarian assistance, with limited access to the most basic amenities, such as water ...

6. Santos ignores 23,000 opposition submissions

   comes to water. “They have point blank refused to conduct the extra baseline data collection on ... point of having an expert water group to review gas mining proposals if Santos is free to just ignore ...

7. Occupied Western Sahara: A rare look inside Africa's last colony

   ELGHALIA DJIMI:  [translated] One of the torturers would put water onto my face, which was covered with a rag, ...  Are you saying they waterboarded you? ELGHALIA DJIMI:  [translated] Yes. They poured water on my face ... same area, they had a small hole filled with water where they put me. And then they would bring an ...

8. Two new books take a hard look at the fight against Adani — and for our future

   who seem to support the mine volunteer concern over the impact on water and the Great Artesian Basin. ... “Well it is good for the economy, but they’ve been given all that water when the farmers are struggling. ...

9. Venezuela: Inside the worker-run ‘Proletarios Unios’ factory

   There are many problems with access to water in Lara as it is a semi-arid area. Water is meant to be ... opposition, water distribution is constantly sabotaged. One of the first things the workers did was to begin ... supplying water to rural areas from the five deep freshwater wells located within the factory’s land. They ...

10. NSW sexual consent law must be changed

    waters and, potentially, make most men rapists. But for most people, the idea of practising consent is ...

11. South Australia: Liberals give go-ahead for high-risk coal

    describes as “a witch’s brew of water mixed with benzene, phenols, [and] polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons”. ...

12. Adani’s Godda power project bad news for Bangladesh

    proposed plant’s use of water taken from the Chir River. The project also requires land acquisition and has ... by the power plant is to be exported to Bangladesh has made the impacts of water use and land ...

13. Venezuela denounces xenophobia as Brazil militarises border

    while claiming that Venezuela, “invests more than US$3 billion per year in water, electricity, gas, ...

14. Five new books for ecosocialists

    for the bookshelves of ecosocialists. They cover climate change, the Anthropocene, water and food ... a transnational threat, while also addressing the shortcomings of the analogy and its strategies. Water ... Schmidt shows how, when it comes to water, the two are one and the same. The very way we think about ...

15. Europe’s Tampa moment

    waters in order to drop off the asylum seekers, it was boarded by the SAS and prevented from doing so. ...

16. Australia needs a national environment protection agency

    A newly created CEC and NEPA would be charged with safeguarding the climate, wildlife, fresh water and ... Organization, protect water quality, and deliver effective climate change mitigation and adaptation policy ...

17. Great March of Return 'an initiative of Palestinian civil society'

    first aid points and waters inside the zone. "Rallies, demonstrations and festivals can be ...

18. Historic land claim victory for Mithaka people

    native title over more than 33,800 square kilometres of their land and waters on October 27. This is one ... land and waters in the Diamantina and Barcoo shires, and in the expansive Channel Country of outback ...

19. Australia dives in climate rankings

    and water resources. Australia was ranked 150th out of 180 countries for its carbon emissions for ... ecosystems, and looks at nine areas including air quality, climate and energy, forests and water resources. ...

20. 'Replace Hazelwood now' protest urges

    station and a major consumer of water: 1.31 megalitres of water is consumed per gigawatt hour of power ...

21. AGL sinks new Sydney CSG well despite three-year breach

    metres from the Nepean River, which flows into the Warragamba Dam, a key water supply for Sydney. The ... well presents serious risks of water contamination given the Nepean floods regularly. Despite ...

22. Boggabri coalmine protesters face court

    scaled a coal crusher and hung a large banner reading “Stop the Coal Rush: Protect Health, Water ... marches west, I think it's good for communities to unite to protect our health, water and home,” said ...

23. Burke told to stop coal expansion

    largest remaining forest in the Liverpool Plains, deplete the water table and emit toxic coal dust,” said ... our water and our forests.”   The coal expansions would destroy over half of the Leard Forest, which ...

24. Arnhem Land people ‘don't want fracking’

    and waters. You are welcome to visit our country, but don't destroy it. "Paltar stay away: ... and water in our country. The Aboriginal elders were shocked and angry to find out about Paltar's ...

25. BP seeks to dodge oil spill blame

    want to avoid future deep water oil disasters governments need to move the world beyond oil by ... investing in clean energy solutions. “Greenpeace is calling for an immediate ban on all deep water drilling, ...

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