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1. Climate emergency: more at stake than a hotter summer

   impacts on communities. NSW water minister Melinda Pavey confirmed last month that regional centres ... including Tamworth, Orange, Bathurst and Dubbo could run out of local water supplies. Smaller towns, such as ... Menindee and Wilcannia, have been struggling without drinking water while big agribusinesses continue to ...

2. NSW Minerals Council demands retrograde planning law

   water being trucked in and the government has the nerve to try and put through a bill which aims to stop ...

3. ‘Abolish the billionaires’ say high school climate activists

   facing “uncharted waters” and “if they sit still and wait for other government agencies to jump into ...

4. Anti-choice MPs pull out all stops to restrict access

   a termination results in a child being born alive” was defeated. However, a watered-down version of this ...

5. 'Hong Kong is becoming a police dictatorship'

   also known as the “Water Revolution”, is characterised by its fluidity — like water. It is also ...

6. Unions campaign for a jobs-rich energy transition

   wind industry in Commonwealth waters, and the challenges caused for the electricity grid with the ...

7. Will the huge student-led Climate Strike be a game changer?

   said: “They are and have always been at the forefront of the fight to protect land, water, air and Country”. ...

8. As bushfires unleash hell on Earth, we must talk about the climate crisis

   fossil fuels.  Acting rationally on mitigating climate change also means ending corporate water trading ...

9. Albanese’s jobs-and-climate doublespeak

   seats covering mining areas, concluded that the party’s climate policies needed to be watered down to ...

10. Northern Territory Traditional Owners tell Origin not to frack

    or what language you speak, we drink the same water. “Australian government, listen to us. We don’t ... mining to be banned to ensure the water and land are not poisoned.  Nancy, her son Gadrian and Larissa ... to water. In the NT, water is life, and the unconventional gas industry has managed to convince ...

11. COP25: As catastrophic fires rage, where are the climate solutions?

    education, water, energy, housing — to ensure people can access the resources they need to live well without ...

12. Country and city unite to demand a renewable energy future

    water and stop global warming.” Nathan Leslie, a Gommeroi man from north-west NSW who is fighting to ... Anne Kennedy, a farmer from Coonamble and p resident of the NSW Artesian Bore Water Users Association, ... told the rally that too many people do not understand the real value of water: “When our tanks run dry, ...

13. Save the Pilliga- stop Santos fracking!

    land. Narrabri gasfield threatens two precious water resources: the Great Artesian Basin and the ... and the saline treated water produced from the proposed 850 wells. May 22 is the deadline for ...

14. War games promoted as ‘cash splash’ for war-weary public

    month-long exercise from international waters. After all, the games are about asserting US-Australian ...

15. Protestors tell AGL to stop fracking

    has failed to provide evidence it is permitted to store waste water at a farm site near its CSG pilot ... field in Gloucester. It had been allowed to mix the produced water, a by-product of the fracking process ... which is notoriously high in salts, with irrigation water. That permit expired in April and it seems ...

16. Extinction crisis report sounds dire warning

    from industrial facilities that are dumped annually into the world’s waters. While the summary report ...

17. Brazilian environmentalists warn of more mining disasters

    burst in several years. Hundreds died and the devastation to local residents, water resources and ...

18. NSW elections: why principled preferences matter

    forward a decent plan to fix the dire water problem in drought-stricken north-western NSW, for fear of ...

19. New Vale mine disaster in Brazil is one more corporate failure

    deaths, cause serious impacts to land, water resources and biodiversity over 20 years and cost up to ...

20. Protesters tell AGL to stop fracking

    is permitted to store waste water at a farm site near its CSG pilot field in Gloucester. It had been ... allowed to mix the produced water, a by-product of the fracking process which is notoriously high in ... salts, with irrigation water. That permit expired in April and it seems that AGL doesn't have ...

21. COP24: Make 2019 the year of action on climate change

    consequences for many vulnerable people. Walgett, in north-western NSW, ran out of water and catastrophic fires ...

22. New hope that Santos may drop Narrabri CSG project

    construction of the Leeward waste water facility — a holding pond for the waste water bought up from the wells. ... Leewood water treatment plant to make way for irrigation with treated gas field produced water right next ... the licence to provide certainty to the community and protect the land and water”. “Developing new ...

23. Gamilaraay people fight for their songlines, country in epic anti-CSG fight

    fight is about totems — “our water, the environment and the land itself”. Gamilaraay, one of four ... 850 trucks per day. That’s a massive amount of salt. Where are they going to put it? And the water ... Protecting water “Our native title boundaries are bound by four rivers: the Mooki in the south; the Macintyre ...

24. Brazil: 'Mountain tsunami' a disaster waiting to happen

    metres of iron-ore tailings, reddish mud and water slurry. A “mountain tsunami” is how firefighters in ... water slurry. The miner's union initially reported that 15-16 people had been killed and 45 people ... communities, or some 250,000 people, are without potable water. Sanmarco initially insisted that the slurry was ...

25. Crowd grills company on coal seam gas

    drill sites and uses less water than coal seam gas mining in Queensland. He said Dart “doesn’t use ... fracking” — which involves blasting the coal seam with water and a toxic chemical mix at high pressure. ... Weijer said “the ‘produced water’ [from the mining process] is not toxic — just salty — around 20% of the ...

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