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Labor to guard the coasts
reached Australian waters. Refugee advocates have rejected the proposal as yet another example of ... coastguard could play a great role, I think, in making sure our waters aren't fished out by rapacious ...
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Wollongong floods: an act of God?
Carrying water from the mountain slopes, a network of creeks crosses the plain en route to the sea. In ... normal times, they typically contain only a trickle of rather disgusting-looking water and are strewn ... maintained and able to cope with large volumes of water. For some areas, the current floods followed similar ...
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The Long Walk
of Goolwa. There it ended in Amelia Park at the water's edge of Kumarangk, also known as ... to the already bruised environment of Kumarangk and its surrounding waters. They also regarded it as ...
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PNG land-holders cripple mine
Members of the Yulai Landowners Association disrupted water supply to the mine and two mine towns. ... restoration of water. Dome Resources has flown in five armed guards with attack dogs "to maintain law and ...
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Unsolved problems at Kakadu mine
Either way is dangerous given the likely erosion or seepage, he said. Water management and disposal at ... of a new road in a previously undisturbed area; water disposal at the Jabiluka site; infrastructure ...
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Socialists almost win Irish by-election
constituency was the strength of feeling against water charges, which benefited Higgins, who had campaigned on ... this issue. [Higgins leads the mass campaign in the Irish Republic against water charges.] The collapse ...
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Porgera land-holders oppose increased tailings
Owners Association are outraged over Porgera Joint Venture's (PJV) application seeking a water use ... water with colluvium and soft rock from the open pit and neutralised tailings from January 1, 1997, ...
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Poem: Coke or Pepsi
pick. Vote for Sprite in the Upper House Or why don't you put mineral water in It's pure and ... friends they ask me who to vote for and folla I say whoever can mix 5c of sugar, 1c of water and charge ...
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Doctors raise alarm over Jabiluka
— to prevent frequent accidental leaks and run-off of contaminated water, and exposure of workers to ... toxic gas emissions and contaminated water supply. Dr Smith condemned Senator Hill's dismissal of ...
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South Africans strike against privatisation
privatisation. The Nelspuit local council in Mpumalanga province intends to privatise water and sanitation ... privatised water and waste departments, and road services and sewerage disposal have been partly privatised. ...
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Qld toxic waste dump site 'not safe'
location and impact on underground water systems. One report, by consultant Dr Brian Senior, describes the ... economically viable ground water resource [the Surat Basin] is in danger of widespread man-made ...
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Filipinos fight Australian power plant
to agricultural and marine resources and to people's health. The plant's waste water will ... could be severely reduced. The power plant will draw the massive amounts of water it needs from ...
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Specific measures
Environment Protection Council. $8.9 million for two regional projects to improve water management, in the ... water heaters. $102 million for the National Landcare Program. $1.9 million in 1994-95, $3.9 million in ...
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Toxic Park Closed
off and closed because of toxic chemicals found in the soil and ground water. A study commissioned by ... oozed to the surface as well as leaking into the ground water. Toxic substances were found to have ...
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Mines dumping toxic waste, CJC told
"off-lease" air, water and land. He claimed the company had disposed of copper waste into the Leichhardt River ... cyanide and other toxins were leaking into Queensland's waterways and threatening the water supplies ...
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Quebec hydro project may destroy James Bay
area in eastern North America. James Bay forms the southern tip of Hudson Bay. This shallow salt-water ... bay is the largest northern river drainage system. The fresh water from virtually every major river ... the bay's salt water over marshy tidal flats to create a vast and diverse ecosystem. Quebec ...
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Hawkesbury pollution
even threatening human life. The water hyacinth can double in size every five days and with a weight of ... control". However, with seven Water Board sewage outfalls flowing into the river, the situation has worsened ...
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Ozone loss to get worse
progress on tougher EC controls for HCFCs, and watered down the agreement on the ozone-destroying pesticide ... UK succeeded along with other states in watering down the agreement to a 25% cut by the year 1998. ...
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Cholera mirrors Russia's social decay
poses a danger only when water temperatures are relatively high. Moreover, control over the quality of ... drinking water in the country's northern regions is still relatively good. But it is a different ... into decay — where drinking water is pumped from irrigation canals, and where decrepit sewers leak into ...
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Doctors speak out against uranium mining
contaminating the ground water. Radioactive dust can also become airborne and cause contamination of townships, ... could have their water supplies made unsafe. Dr Proud urged the union movement, pastoralists and remote ...
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South Africa- in brief
just returned from Rwanda had identified as priorities, vitamin and protein-enriched foods, water ... to Rwanda. It ruled out sending troops. Clean drinking water within three years The government of ... national unity has promised every South African access to clean drinking water and sanitation "within ...
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Melbourne rally against privatisation
June 26 against the state government's plans to privatise Victoria's gas, water and ... environment. Other issues raised by speakers were access to water and power utilities as basic human rights and ...
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Situation worsens in Iraq
The report says Iraq's population is receiving only one quarter of its potable water requirements ... Khan's report, US$6.8 billion will be needed this year to repair the country's water services and ...
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When things balance
mutes shrugging shoulders. He bore witness to the waters demise, sucked dry like serum in a plague, it ... out all life. It lay crippled, growing the worst for wear (like gingerbread mixed with water and milk) ...
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Greenpeace slams La Trobe Valley ocean outfall
could have widespread effects. Already, over-fishing in the southern waters is suspected as the cause of ... well waste waters a day. Most of this waste is currently being dumped into Lake Coleman after secondary ... treatment at the Dutson Downs sewerage farm. Waste water from Australian Paper Mills' Maryvale pulp ...