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1. WA landholders celebrate cancellation of gas exploration permit

   cancellation is a welcome step forward to protecting the livelihoods, water, land and health of people living ...

2. EarthWorker project finally taking off

   solar-powered water heating systems, heating pumps and solar ventilators. Dave Kerin, the main project manager ... distribution of solar hot water systems, including hot water pumps and hot water tanks. One of the main ways in ... cooperatives information provided by the EarthWorker website, this collective purchase of hot water systems by ...

3. Battle to save the Pilliga heats up

   project is approved, there is a significant risk that the aquifers on which farmers depend for water for ... one of those recharge reservoirs. The water coming from the Great Artesian Basin feeds spring wetlands ... that can be distinguished from other wetlands in dry landscapes because of their permanent water ...

4. Iraq protests turn up heat on corrupt elite

   are angry about the lack of electricity and water- and blame rampant government corruption. ... with plastic water bottles. The crowd insisted on meeting the governor. “The local government is always ... promising improved water and electricity, but they are liars and no longer have any credibility,” Tareq ...

5. High-speed rail better than a second Sydney airport

   '99, the report showed most of the site is in a water catchment area for Sydney and Wollongong, and all ... can't even use flame retardants — they have to use plain water because everything disappears into the ... out the welcome mat to the coal seam gas industry, a direct threat to water supplies. Airplane fuel ...

6. Stick together & act together to stop CSG

   “Protect our Land and Water” from coal seam gas (CSG) and irresponsible mining, represented an incredible ... the potential damage to water, productive land and communities. That the Country Women’s Association ... to support the development of the CSG industry, putting water systems, land and our health at risk. ...

7. Socialists stand against the rottenness in the state of Victoria

   realise that their water bills will increase from about $2000 to $6000 a year over the next few years to ... pay for the plant. The state government no longer sees water as a human right that it is obliged to ... best to save water and electricity, their bills still increase because the supply or service charge ...

8. Olivia Newton-John calls for a halt to coal seam gas mining

   pressure pumps to inject a mixture of sand, water and a mystery cocktail of toxic chemicals into gas wells ... pollutants in their tap water they can literally light it on fire! Because of these kinds of problems, ... cover an area ten times the size of Tasmania? We have the largest pure water source in the world. In ...

9. Stop CSG: a fight for our future

   threaten water resources. “[CSG] exploration licences have been granted, in some cases permission to mine ... of a national day of action to defend water resources. A report by the Senate committee on rural ... altogether. However, despite O’Farrell’s recent acknowledgement of the potential risks CSG poses to water ...

10. Labor opts for open slather uranium mining

    are located near important water supplies which, if mined, could pose a serious threat to water ... south of Alice Springs, within the town's water catchment area and only a few kilometres from the ... bore field that supplies the town's water. The Mt Fitch deposit, which Compass Resources has said ...

11. Write on: Letters to the editor

    the vast natural resource comprising the seabed within NZ's territorial waters. At least 25 ... materials at the Ranger uranium mine are less than surprising. Workers who realised their drinking water was ... "hot" (toxic, radioactive) process water accidentally overflowing into the surrounding water systems of ...

12. It's Gunnamatta!

    state government's and Melbourne Water’s policy, or lack of it, regarding the ocean outfall at ... operation, Melbourne Water has only managed to recycle 1% of the effluent. This prompted members of the Clean ... Ocean Foundation to present the inaugural “Water Wally” award to Melbourne Water on the morning of the ...

13. Uranium mining method far from 'benign'

    process involves drilling ground water bores or wells into a uranium deposit, injecting corrosive ... method can be applied only to uranium deposits located within a ground water system or confined aquifer, ... environmental impacts and cause long-term changes to ground water quality. The use of acidic solutions mobilises ...

14. Battle to preserve Tomago sand beds

    water source for the lower Hunter area, after Chichester Dam and Grahamstown Dam. The Hunter Water Board ... (HWB) classifies Tomago sand beds as an A1 water reserve and a protected area. RZM has been mining at ... back into the pond formed by the aquifer. This process oxidises the minerals and has made the water ...

15. Britain's escalating environmental disaster

    Drinking Water Inspectorate has announced that Londoners are drinking the worst privatised water in the ... country. The H2O, plus chemicals and sewage, is supplied by Thames Water, which has raised the price of the ... claimed, earlier this year, that the water industry in Britain had failed to meet the standards on nitrate ...

16. Aboard the Timor peace ship

    had announced beforehand that we would be stopped from entering Indonesian waters, stopped from ... landing in Dili, refused permission to go to Santa Cruz, blown out of the water... There were also ... out of the water if we tried to enter Indonesian waters. This was disconcerting, since he'd ...

17. Manila diary

    shelter, no water or sanitation and only the hard ash to cultivate. Nothing will grow in it, but they sell ... right to fish in their own waters. With the hot summer months depleting their islands of fresh water ... greatest fear is the introduction of bottled water to the Philippines. He says, this will mean that tap ...

18. Government, employers mismanage resources

    aspect was the use of aircraft in water-bombing operations. Small crop-dusting aircraft and helicopters ... with water buckets were used, but these have pitifully small capacities. A former Canadian resident ... hemisphere countries have quite a number of large aircraft fitted with huge water tanks for water ...

19. Continental shift

    production of To Traverse Water. Like its piece of three years ago, Days and Nights with Christ, which dealt ... to have two distinct realities in a constant tension not truly resolved. To Traverse Water portrays ... the symbolic journey of a Greek woman whose journey across the vast waters to Australia is the thread ...

20. The Port River: Adelaide's largest sewer?

    the effluent is introduced to the river, so too are 70 million litres of sea water from the nearby ... West Lakes. Because the effluent is less dense than the sea water, it tends to float near to, or on top ... of, the salty water. This causes an imbalance in the convection currents of the river, and slowly the ...

21. We need a drug policy for the 21st century

    education and clean water to people across the world. It’s important to emphasise that this figure is for ...

22. Scotland to ban fracking

    Opponents raised concerns over the impact on health and the environment. Fracking involves injecting water ...

23. Capitalism, not human nature, blocking climate action

    unravelling of planetary systems. These range from the rushing water where Greenland ice used to be to huge ... Sancton explained, “than the clump of rock and soil and water and air that is our common home.” When ...

24. Sydney stands with Standing Rock

    pipeline is threatening to pollute water and land of the Sioux and other Native American groups. If ...

25. First Palestinian hunger striker dies, health worsens for prisoners

    are not allowed to drink cool water and are being forced to consume warm water. Ma’an news agency ...

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