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  1. Getting ripped off? Victorians need change

    essential services, such as water are sky rocketing, even if we use less! Private retailer City West Water ... increased its profits by $20 million from last year, while admitting residential water usage has dropped. ... This is outrageous. Water, electricity and gas should be publicly owned and distributed. The Brumby ...

  2. 'Call to close Ranger uranium mine'

    cultural destruction. He said the mine had destroyed much surface water in the national park and that ... mining company Energy Resources of Australia was unable to deal with water contamination at the site. ...

  3. Beach protest against coal seam gas

    Sydney water catchment. Coal seam gas drilling produces contaminated water, is a bushfire risk due to ...

  4. Action targets Israel, gas industry

    main theme of a protest outside the 鈥Water Solutions for the Coal Seam Gas Industry Breakfast鈥, held at ... policies which deny the Palestinian people access to water in the Israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza. ...

  5. Poem: Evolution

    the air the soil sacrilegious blasphemy the water to nature鈥檚 precious prayer. While the creatures ... gurgle like spring waters, would pout, play, delight 鈥 the world was harmony in love, the music felt so ...

  6. Brisbane rallies for equal marriage rights

    Waters. Grace told the audience that she was supporting a motion for equal marriage rights being proposed ... for the ALP National Conference in Sydney in December, and expected it would be adopted. Waters urged ...

  7. Gladstone harbour dredging could have caused fish disease

    cubic metre harbour dredging program sullying the water.鈥 After about 25 fishermen had earlier reported ... infections from harbour water and fish were found with red spot disease and parasites, the state government ...

  8. Kenya: Flower cash crops reap hunger, destruction

    Lake Naivasha. A January 2008 report by Food and Water Watch and the Council of Canadians, Lake ... water causes levels to drop. This has had a devastating effect on plant, marine and animal life. Hippo ... water from communal taps and form long lines to do so. 鈥淐attle herders, such as the Maasai, can only ...

  9. Save the Mary River

    sign, with a marker to indicate just how high the water would rise. "Act now or be dammed!", ... much viable farmland will be four metres or more under water. For more information, visit ...

  10. New Gaza flotilla planned

    ships in international waters on May 31. 鈥淭here have been increasing calls by Arab, Islamic, and ... bound for Gaza鈥檚 territorial waters under Israeli threat would be accompanied by a Turkish military ...

  11. Alliance calls for a nuke free Australia

    water, bush tucker and culture. The meeting committed itself to campaign against the imposition of a dump ... and clean water, and called on all political parties to oppose more uranium mining and greater ...

  12. Concern about Australian uranium miner in Malawi

    next to a stream that runs into a major river that provides domestic water and drains into Lake Malawi, ... floods will destroy our precious water resources. Paladin Resources talks about corporate social ... company payroll, and promising communities new school blocks, roads, internet, an airport and clean water ...

  13. Barrick Gold's dirty secrets

    while also consuming and polluting massive amounts of water. An estimated 50% of these mining operations ... Wiradjuri native title rights. The Save Lake Cowal campaign is also deeply concerned about excessive water ... Barrick has licences to take up to 17 megalitres of water (equivalent to 17 Olympic swimming pools) every ...

  14. Navy personnel resent refugee border patrols

    that include repelling refugees from Australian waters, according to documents released under Freedom ... be pushed back to Indonesian waters. Capsicum spray and batons were used against the refugees after ...

  15. Moolarben mine 'a reckless act'

    of our rivers and water resources, cohesion of our rural communities or global warming". ... "The loss of water and good farming country because of the Moolarben mine approval is a further death ...

  16. Loose Cannons

    accounted for." 鈥 MSNBC, August 28. Major water boy "According to sources, investigators believe ... 鈥 although the indictment mentions contracts for bottled water, and nothing about weapons." 鈥 MSNBC, ...

  17. SIEV X survivors 'won't be safe until we can be citizens'

    On October 19, 2001, the "SIEV X" boat sank between Indonesian and Australian waters ... story. It has been three years since the sinking of SIEV X but I am still in the water. I can still feel ... water 鈥 but I talked to her all night. I prayed for her soul and she saved my life. I still see what ...

  18. Three Mile Island: a warning about nuclear power

    source, such as steam or flowing water, is converted into electricity. In a nuclear power plant, a nuclear ... reactor generates heat. This heat is carried away by water or some other means, and is then used to drive ... failure had occurred in part of the plant's pumping apparatus. Water in the secondary cooling system ...

  19. INDIA: Indefinite vigil demands Coke shut down

    vigil until the plant is permanently shut down, accusing Coca-Cola of creating severe water shortages ... and polluting the local environment. More than 20 villages have been affected by the water crisis and ...

  20. Privatisation plan threatens Snowy River

    underground pipes, tunnels and aqueducts into 16 artificial dams. It provided water for inland farming in the ... just 1% of the original water flow in the Snowy River, a reduction that has virtually destroyed one of ... but no longer. Orbost farming communities have been badly affected by a lack of irrigation water and ...

  21. Israeli settlements: Frontline of the occupation

    percent of renewable water resources in the Occupied Territories are reserved for the use of Israelis ... to dig at will. Per capita consumption of water by settlers is almost six times higher than that of ...

  22. South Africa announces 'world's largest' forest privatisation

    minister of water affairs and forestry Kadar Asmal in a joint statement. The African National Congress ... will 50% of the commercial forests of the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. The remaining 50% ...

  23. SOUTH AFRICA: Workers march against privatisation

    when they heard that the water multinational with the worst track record in the world, Suez-Lyonnaise, ... water. SAMWU said that unless the contract was withdrawn, strike action was likely. November 22, 2000 429 ...

  24. Labor blocks debate on forests

    Nature Conservation Council (NSW) calls on the minister for land and water conservation and agriculture ... department of land and water conservation had failed to prosecute reported breaches of environmental ...

  25. Blockade of Beverley uranium mine planned

    mining which has been banned in other parts of the world. This method of mining puts the ground waters at ... communities water needs, is only 50 to 100 metres below the Beverley aquifer. The mine is situated on land ...

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