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1. The vanishing coral of Bohol

   Bohol's coral. The waters are policed to prevent those without permits from fishing in the restricted ... vessels that enter these waters do so illegally and often bribe the local constabulary. These boats are ... owner of the vessel for bribery, entering municipal waters and carrying firearms during the embargo. The ...

2. Coal seam gas fight is about our future

   future and our right to protect this area — to protect our drinking water, our food and our future. Coal ... seam gas mining threatens all of these things. So when it comes to our drinking water, first and ... foremost, there is the water that they have to draw out of the coal seam to access the gas. That water is ...

3. Black snakes on the move: US pipeline building out of control

   poisonous by-products everywhere it goes — including into waterways and drinking water sources. Protest ... participation of thousands, if not millions, of determined citizens. Water is necessary for the life of every ... water supply and sacred lands of the Standing Rock Sioux, but to all waterways and lands along the ...

4. VicForests charged for illegally logging in East Gippsland

   years, the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning concluded that protected rainforest ...

5. Agriculture and climate change

   overgrazing, anaerobic (airless) conditions like compaction and water-logging, and the use of synthetic ... degradation. Furthermore, water cycles are disrupted. Ground water resources are being used faster than they ... need for water at a time when rainfall is decreasing and becoming erratic. Biodiversity loss on farms, ...

6. A uranium hole in the heart

   Australia's fifth uranium mine — well inside the Alice Springs water catchment boundary. In July, environment ... water. Cameco, the world's largest producer of uranium, flooded its Cigar Lake mine in Canada in ... 2006, leaving the world's single largest uranium deposit underwater. Efforts to remove the water ...

7. Feudalism alive and well in Pakistan

   of water, fertilisers, tractor permits and agricultural credit. This in turn gives them influence ... quality of their produce and causing greater pollution. The underground water level dropped an average of ... sustained fertility of soil systems and on the sufficiency of productive resources — land, water, labour and ...

8. Nigeria: Communities sue Shell over oil spills

   communities, alleges that decades of uncleaned oil spills have polluted fishing waters and contaminated farming ... polluted fishing waters and contaminated farming land. As well as a compensation package, both groups want ... with “chronic levels” of land and water pollution, which has had severe impacts on its farming and ...

9. Protesters take aim at gas conference

   water, air, and soil – and our prime food producing agricultural lands.” Key industry and departmental ... introduced a bill to ban CSG mining in special areas of Sydney's water catchments. The bill was tabled ... contamination of the water supply. Wilson became active in the anti-CSG movement two years ago after hearing ...

10. NSW politics: corrupt and corrupting

    inquiry, which will examine people associated with a company called Australian Water Holdings (AWH), is ... Water. The Obeid family has an investment in AWH, which holds contracts with state-owned Sydney Water to ... Girolamo, who was also on the board of Sydney Water until he resigned following the ICAC announcement. Di ...

11. O'Farrell's resignation: time to break corporate power over governments

    he accepted a vintage bottle of wine valued at almost $3000 from the head of Australian Water ... accused of inappropriately billing Sydney Water and using the money for political donations while lobbying ... for an public/private partnership with state-owned Sydney water to roll out Sydney’s water ...

12. Shell now planning for catastrophic climate change

    set to carry out more environmentally irresponsible deep-water drilling as a result of their planned ... $US74 billion takeover of rival company BG. BG is a British multinational with several deep-water ... its presence in deep-water drilling at the same time as increasing operations in liquefied natural gas ...

13. Floods devastate Pakistan, government adandons people

    than 20 million people had been affected by the floods in Pakistan. Waters remained at dangerous levels ... Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa and Southern Punjab, the water has now washed down the Indus River Valley, causing a deluge in ... Sindh. The water has been powered by unusually fierce monsoon rains that began in the country’s northern ...

14. Pakistan: A town completely destroyed

    people told how water more than 14 feet (4.27 metres) high reached the town’s rooftops. The flood came ... government for failing to warn them in time about the danger of the flood. Some also alleged that water was ... providing some food. There is still water all over Pir Sabaq. A bad smell is everywhere and no clean ...

15. Sydney residents question gas company

    well head,” said Needham. CSG mining is expanding across NSW and Queensland. Water usage, and waste ... water produced by projects, is a key concern for many residents and environmental groups. Needham said ... the amount of water used during production “depends on scope of drilling, but for a single in-seam ...

16. Chop 'em, chip 'em and burn 'em

    promise. Never mind that the logging of water catchment areas can reduce water supply by up to 50%, and ... rivers every year. Just buy a water filter: you'll get clean water and boost the gross domestic ... regarding the logging of areas with heritage, animal rights or water catchment values would recognise our ...

17. Nauru: 'Do not force us to return'

    Australian police (Australian Protective Service). They have stopped the water supply and the food supply to ... detention: We are still suffering from water shortages. We have salty water for just two hours in a day. Some ... days we don't have salty water. There are almost 500 detainees in Topside detention at the moment. ...

18. BOLIVIA: Protests bring nation to standstill

    the urban public school teachers. The Coordinating Committee for Water and Life, which organised ... water system, is also backing the new protests. On September 20, some 20,000 people demonstrated in ... Cochabamba to demand that the government discuss implementation of a new water law. On September 22 more than ...

19. * Dam pollutes the blue Danube

    depended on the ground waters, which now have disappeared. According to a WWF report published in 1995, the ... ground water level in the Szigetkoz region has dropped by from 0.6 to 3.04 metres. The drop was caused by ... species, but has also eliminated the oxygen supply of the river itself. As a result, the water quality of ...

20. Vision for the future

    were lakes and rivers. They held not a drop of water. Women with sunken eyes, walking apparitions, ... trudged 30 kilometres three times a day to scavenge half a cup of filthy, diseased water. Their entire ... existence was taken up with finding enough water to maintain life in the often 50 degree heat. We visited an ...

21. Despite Hollywood, still a giggle

    struck by a comet, turning the whole planet into a desert. It hasn't rained in 11 years, and water ... is power. The Water and Power Company just happens to have both. Enter our hero, Rebecca Buck, soon ... to be known as Tank Girl. When Water and Power storms Rebecca's house to get back the water she ...

22. Anti-privatisation rally attracts thousands

    commitment to privatisation. The day after the rally, water resources minister Peter Foss announced that 1500 ... jobs at the Water Authority would be shed over the next six months. Some workers are to be offered ... selective redundancies, some jobs would go to the private sector which picked up Water Authority operational ...

23. Gulf War still causing civilian deaths

    soon. The report also said that epidemics of water-borne diseases, such as the cholera, typhoid and ... such as water and power were not provided. He found diarrhoeal diseases were increasing even then, and ... at nearly every provider level." The team also had access to water purification, sewage ...

24. Liberals, Nationals split on agricultural chemicals

    Department's Division of Occupational Health and Safety is pitifully inadequate. Town water supplies throughout ... water supplies on the north coast. Existing legislation is not being enforced. For example, regulations ... subsidisation of chemical monoculture, particularly in western NSW, with water charges at $4-$8 a megalitre, ...

25. Will Leadbeater’s possum survive extended forest agreement?

    wildlife surveys to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, rather than logging agency ... Victoria’s National Parks. FoE spokesperson Ed Hill said: “Logging National Parks and protected water ...

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