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  1. Murray-Darling water disaster escalates

    Murray-Darling Basin has seen some rainfall, but not enough to stave off zero water allocations when the new ... irrigation year begins on Sunday… Howard's grave warning in April of no water for irrigators from July ... output, much of which will now be endangered. The SMH reported that some water "would be made ...

  2. Murray-Darling water disaster escalates

    Murray-Darling Basin has seen some rainfall, but not enough to stave off zero water allocations when the new ... irrigation year begins on Sunday... Howard's grave warning in April of no water for irrigators from July ... that some water "would be made available to keep citrus trees going for the fruit harvest and for ...

  3. Corporate greed drives Murray-Darling crisis

    Zoe Kenny The deepening of Australia's drought- and global-warming-driven water crisis has ... water crisis is graphically illustrated in the fate of the Murray-Darling river basin. In December, the ... November 1, the Murray-Darling Water Crisis Management Council, formed by Murray River shire councils, ...

  4. Stop the Tillegra Dam

    the No Tillegra Dam group, which is seeking to have Hunter Water reverse their 2006 decision to build ... people opposed to the dam? It is unnecessary. People will pay more for their water, the project is ... to supply water more cheaply. The state government is in bad shape and Hunter Water, by going ahead ...

  5. Coalmining damage

    caused to people's health, rivers and water tables by coalmining, watched Rivers of Shame, ... a documentary made by Rivers SOS that profiles rivers and water tables irreversibly damaged by longwall mining ... and water tanks should also be checked. The doctors' requests for local area illness data from ...

  6. Uranium: Leave it in the ground!

    an environmental disaster. Every day the Olympic Dam mine extracts 33 megalitres of water, at no ... charge, from the Great Artesian Basin — the source of water for many pastoral properties and unique ... ecosystems. Meanwhile, residents in South Australia pay almost $150 per year just to access water as well as ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Howard uses UN report to push nuke 'solution'

    radio's AM program on February 3, federal minister for environment and water resources Malcolm Turnbull ... never seem to warrant a mention in Howard's glowing accounts of nuclear power. The massive water ... power plants use up to 80% more water than conventional power stations. In the driest inhabited ...

  9. 'Extreme' Arctic melt sparks dash for cash

    route should be designated as international waters. The opening up of the Northwest Passage has also ... sparked a rush to assert rights over territorial waters, which could allow for a massive expansion of ...

  10. Fidel Castro slams biofuel 'genocide'

    to death from starvation and lack of water. Castro asked, "Where and who is going to supply the ... fresh water, with battles over water potentially becoming a major source of conflict in coming decades. ... land and water enough to feed seven people have been used." Venezuela has a five-year plan in ...

  11. HCNG: An alternative to coal and oil?

    nitrous oxide emissions by around 50%). Hydrogen combines with oxygen when burnt, creating water vapour ... the electricity supply grid. Creating hydrogen from water by electrolysis uses enormous amounts of ... combination with water. On its own, hydrogen is not an immensely practical fuel, requiring sophisticated and ...

  12. Six reasons to phase out coal exports

    and agricultural water supplies. Sydney's main water-supplying river, the Nepean, is threatened ... adjacent to where longwall mining operations are occurring. Mining under soaks and water tables that feed ... into rivers is just as problematic and threatens to poison key water supplies. 3. Peak oil Coal mining ...

  13. Protests highlight key climate issues

    of water involved in the industry. June 8, 2007 713 News ...

  14. Australian Youth Climate Change Coalition launched

    who wanted it to be watered down. The conference organisers proposed that the declaration be left to ...

  15. The world's biggest solar bullshit artists

    focus it on water pipes. The heated water is pumped to a central power block where heat exchangers use ...

  16. APEC fails on climate change, pushes nukes

    events, large-scale crop failures and dwindling water resources increase conflicts both between and within ... report notes: "Fundamental environmental issues of food, water and energy security ultimately lie ...

  17. Imagine: a real alternative energy plan

    essential water and sewage pumping could be pumped off peak using wind power. Similarly, water could be ... water has obvious uses and the hydrogen can be blended with natural gas to run the gas-fired power ...

  18. 100% renewables by 2020 is possible

    the heat of the sun onto pipes filled with oil. The hot oil is used to boil water and the steam ...

  19. Global warming refugees- left to drown?

    water scarcity to 1.1-3.2 billion people by the end of the century; an additional 200-600 million people ... gardens and contaminated fresh water supplies. The plight of the Carteret islanders "brings home the ...

  20. Global warming refugees — left to drown?

    water scarcity to 1.1-3.2 billion people by the end of the century; an additional 200-600 million people ... vegetable gardens and contaminated fresh water supplies. The plight of the Carteret islanders "brings ...

  21. 'Keep trying on all fronts'

    with the renewable energy from wind, wave, solar and tidal. We can inject water into giant beds of hot ... granite in South Australia which have horizontal fractures in them — the water travels through the ...

  22. Dr Karl: 'Keep trying on all fronts'

    water into giant beds of hot granite in South Australia which have horizontal fractures in them — the ... water travels through the fractures and turns to steam and this runs a generator. The beds will generate ...

  23. Peak oil: Is the oil running out?

    fewer than 10 in 2003... To build a jack-up rig costs [US]$160 million to $190 million, and deep-water ... fields and can drill in waters that are 10,000 feet deep." These huge costs — which are a fraction ... per barrel of oil from deep-water rigs in the Gulf of Mexico). In his 2003 article "Oil Companies ...

  24. Omission, censorship mark climate change debate

    severe tropical storms, water scarcity, desertification and the continued melting of the world's ice ... atmospheric concentrations of water vapour, due to warming of the oceans, which intensifies the greenhouse ...

  25. Socialists discuss environmental strategies

    water practices". Two essays, Elmar Altvater's "The social and natural environment of ...

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