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1. Toxic water problem at uranium mine not resolved

   millions of litres of contaminated water generated. The Environment Centre said government regulators were ... responding to water management problems at Ranger by allowing Energy Resources Australia, which manages the ... mine, to create and store even more water on site. The centre’s nuclear free campaigner Cat Beaton said: ...

2. Communities protest NT government’s betrayal on fracking

   drinking the water due a lead leak in the water supply, which had become contaminated by the McArthur River ... zinc mine. The mine was approved by NT parliament in 1993 and has a history of water and fish ... drinking water’. “It’s dangerous for pregnant women, kids and everyone really. They told us to drink ...

3. Coalmine ban victory

   years, threatening to contaminate the Pages River and other water sources for local farmland. The ... potential impacts on local water resources would far outweigh any benefits of proceeding with the project.” ... has prevailed and... [I] look forward to the water issues being addressed in all future mining ...

4. Territory gas boom to bust the environment

   gas by pumping sand, water and chemicals into the ground — a process commonly known as fracking. ... water supplies. The popular documentary Gasland, released in 2010, showed that some residents near ... water needs. The aquifers are under threat not just from contamination, but because shale gas mining ...

5. '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. ...

6. Utopia residents hungry, but this isn't news

   reported that the health service at Whitegate camp in Utopia had spent three months with its main water ... concerned that lack of access to clean water would worsen health conditions like scabies. The health centre ... and bedding.” The Barkly Shire Council was quicker responding to criticism than fixing the water bore. ...

7. Labor changes its refugee policy, slightly

   refugee status after entering Australian waters. Delegates at the conference agreed to overturn the ... a desire to reduce the number of refugee applicants entering Australian waters. There was no change to the ...

8. Will NT Labor stick to its fracking moratorium?

   are more incensed by the unique threat posed by fracking. The process uses high pressure water and ... into the water table threatening human and animal health.   There is also the question of cost. ...

9. US forces get the nod in Darwin

   Australian soil or in Australian waters. Cluster munitions are particularly heinous because they leave ... environs. US forces use depleted uranium as anti-armour ammunition. Depleted uranium can seep into the water ...

10. NT communities say no to frackers

    threatened water supplies and livelihoods. Pastoralist Daniel Tapp, whose land is threatened by fracking ...

11. Northern Territory gov’t rolls its leader

    government has been unpopular with voters because of cuts to public services and hikes in power and water ... government hiked power and water bills by 30% and cut funding to Aboriginal services such as Night Patrol. It ... the spill, the CLP has said it would raise power and water bills by only 20%, refunding those that ...

12. Free Lex Wotton!

    tagetted and disabling the water mains to hinder firefighters' attempts to douse the flames. ... 40-year-old plumber was asked to return to town to repair some water pipes. In order to accomplish the repairs ... he turned off the local water mains. He then heard about the community meeting about Mulrunji's ...

13. The corporate interests behind Howard's land grab

    government to water-down the rights of Aboriginals to veto mining on traditional lands in 1987, and it's ... people rely upon for water, and the Supreme Court ruled that there had been insufficient consultation ... as in situ mining, which can poison the water table of a whole state. The MacArthur River dispute was ...

14. Tax havens, gas fields and fail food bowls the new NT plan

    southern politicians”. A 2009 sustainability report by the Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce said ... water availability and harsh climatic conditions. This has yet to stop conservative think tanks and ...

15. Good news stories from the desert country

    wailing that he was lost in the desert and needed "beer, water, food and rugs. Especially beer." ... only got water through the charity of people at Ippenarra station. We were paying up to $10,000 and we ...

16. West Papua: Land grab to displace locals

    land areas. "The decrease in forest and water catchment areas could result in a faster intrusion ... of sea water to the land." A huge workforce would be needed for the food estate project. The ...

17. Labor to force Aborigines off their land

    Australia's Aboriginal communities, says it will struggle to deliver water, power and sewerage services to ... missionaries would provide food, water and other provisions. By the 20 th century huge reserves, such as ...

18. Labor turns its back on Aboriginal people

    evidence-based policy is "dead in the water", according to the October 24 Sydney Morning Herald. Human ...

19. Royal commission into youth detention abuse extended

    without tap water or a blanket. His mother alleges that, when he complained about the cold, he was told to ...

20. Bob Carr: 'I agree with Tony Abbott'

    form of recognition was limited by the Mabo decision in the first case, then watered-down by the Paul ...

21. NT elections: some progressive choices among law and order slugfest

    exampled when the parties are quibbling over where and when super clinics, water parks and highways are ...

22. Nhulunbuy mine deal rips off public, wrecks environment

    residents to pay up to 40% more in electricity and water rates. Is this the best way to spend public money? ...

23. Amnesty blasts Indigenous policies

    they've got toilet blockage, the water doesn't go down the drain in the shower, it runs out ...

24. Iranian eyewitness: 'The people are angry'

    protests. First, when we were walking, they attacked us with boiling water. When we came back again, they ...

25. Global warming and the NSW floods

    In Maitland, residents were evacuated from their homes for fear that rising flood waters would breach ...

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