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  1. Farmers call on Queensland gov't to secure a renewable future

    decade. My message was to tell them that renewables do not use water to generate energy and they do not ... pollute water like coal, gas and nuclear do. farmers_for_climate_action_2.jpg The author, Elena Garcia, at ... drinking water source for many regional communities on the east. There is still no safe way to store this ...

  2. Coal seam gas wastes kill

    Climate crisis Economy Environment Elena Garcia Glen Beasley Coal seam gas (CSG) water trigger ... agricultural-use water, and air鈥. 鈥淐ontaminants of concern include many of the chemicals used for fracking, as well ... have led to moratoria on further mining operations鈥. CSG water is often highly saline 聽and not suitable ...

  3. Farmers discuss protecting prime crop land from coal seam gas mining

    see, heard hard facts on the devastation caused to soil, water and communities by coal and CSG ... extraction. Speakers included soil and water experts, environmental lawyers, climate scientists and local ... Santos, are now champing at the bit to drill the prime crop-growing soil and water of the Liverpool ...

  4. Lifeblood Alliance calls for water buybacks now to save rivers

    Agriculture Elena Garcia Murray-Darling Basin Plan Water An alliance, representing communities ... from the Murray-Darling Basin, is calling for the urgent buyback of water to revive the river system. ... They argue that water buy-backs would minimise water trading by putting it back into the rivers and ...

  5. After the rain, water is still being stolen

    Environment Tracey Carpenter Elena Garcia Water Murray-Darling Basin Despite recent rains, the ... water crisis of inland northern New South Wales communities is far from dissipating. People in ... over-extraction from their rivers by corporate irrigators has left the remaining water unfit for human use. For ...

  6. Rivers in crisis: Amid drought, corporations are buying up Australia鈥檚 water

    October 2. 鈥淚t is imperative that practical and immediate measures be taken to give them access to water ... Australia鈥檚 traditional flood/drought cycle. The other is the serious problem of farmland and water being ... highly lucrative industry depends on access to reliable water sources. Strict and inflexible water rules ...

  7. Rivers in crisis demand real water solutions now

    Water Environment Elena Garcia Rachel Evans Corruption Water irrigators A key federal election ... depend: access to clean drinking water. Our rivers are dying and our artesian basins are being poisoned ... because river water is being sold off at bargain basement rates to the major parties鈥 corporate donors. ...

  8. Rivers in crisis: Water theft and corruption in the Darling River system

    Water Democracy Environment Elena Garcia fish kill Water Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) ... dealing with the water crisis in New South Wales, where a blue-green algal bloom has deprived ... wildlife, graziers and stock are also running out of water. Yet these same bureaucrats have been very slow ...

  9. Qld gov't plan for CSG salt dump is not safe

    not to support sustainable agriculture and tourism 鈥 because you cannot have both. Water is life: but ... that is only true if the water is clean. Fugitive methane emissions from the coal seam gas (CSG) ... pumping water through fracked coal to extract the gas. A dump for 5 million tonnes of waste salt and BTEX ...

  10. Mining industry slammed at Queensland Water Summit

    Agriculture Environment Elena Garcia Mining Water Lock the Gate Alliance Dalby dams mine ... rehabitation About 50 people attended the Queensland Water Summit in Dalby on September 23. Despite its midweek ... increasingly severe drought and mining company pollution of their water sources, to community members, doctors ...

  11. Rivers in crisis: Redesigning river systems for profits

    Water Environment Elena Garcia Rivers in crisis Murray Darling Basin Plan Murray-Darling Basin ... out of water, state and federal governments are continuing their push to deliberately dry out the ... shallow lakes along the Darling River that form an important water storage system. Although politicians ...

  12. Corruption is killing our rivers

    Water Elections Environment Elena Garcia Water Murray-Darling Basin Plan The ABC 4 Corners program ... are also National Party donors, have been the major beneficiaries of the extra environmental water ... being returned to the river. Water speculation has been encouraged. Environmental water purchases have ...

  13. Rivers in crisis: Killing rivers for mines and irrigators

    Climate crisis Elena Garcia Menindee Lakes Water Rivers in crisis The Broken Hill water pipeline ... environment and regional towns in New South Wales and Queensland that are run out of water. The report focused ... on shifting the water source for Broken Hill, in far west NSW, from the Menindee Lakes to the Murray ...

  14. Rivers in crisis: The deliberate murder of the Menindee Lakes

    Water Environment Elena Garcia Menindee Lakes Murray Darling Basin Plan Murray-Darling Basin ... Murray-Darling Basin Plan, there is less water in the river than ever before 鈥 and more in the private water ... storages of a handful of National Party donors. While everyone in charge is saying only more water will fix ...

  15. Death of a dairy cooperative 鈥 Part 3

    but with the drought a lot folded that would have been owned outright before this mess started.鈥 Water ... and I see that water is sold at $3 a litre, and milk is sold at $1 a litre, I think there is an ... are locked down, the cost of electricity and water are skyrocketing. With the price of permanent ...

  16. Helping drought-stricken farmers requires recognising global warming and planning

    Agriculture Climate crisis Environment Elena Garcia Mining Water This autumn was the ... considerations, including the free provision of water and laws to enable farmers to take advantage of mining ... should go underneath farm boundaries to get to the resource. The impact of these mines on water tables is ...

  17. Farmers need real income support, services to deal with drought crisis

    Agriculture Environment Elena Garcia Water Farmers cannot get the dole. However, if they are ...

  18. Solutions to Australia鈥檚 rural crisis

    including by cutting the water supply to remote communities, so the mining industry can have free access to ... premium prices, leaving cheap and toxic imports, produced with polluted water and slave labour, for ... coverage has been gutted to keep the cities ignorant of the threat to their clean food and water and who is ...

  19. Sustainable Australian agriculture under corporate attack from mining, banks and agribusinesses

    soil, air and water, the local communities and the food produced, which is why their middle classes are ... and cause huge dead spots in lakes and estuarine waters. Cowspiracy does not examine Australian ... toxic burden on air, soil and water of factory farming and its by-products, and from the herbicides and ...

  20. Nationals don鈥檛 speak for farmers on climate change action

    and water points. Soil carbon sequestration increases water holding and water infiltration. It holds ... by the crop 鈥 the remainder leach into the water table or volatise as nitrous oxide, which is a very ... serious greenhouse gas. Caring for our living soil and water needs government support. Instead of the ...

  21. Regenerative agroecology: Protecting animal welfare and the environment

    degrade land and water. This is because they are extremely energy and water intensive, and use chemical ... herbicides and fungicides. Properly managed, grass-eating ruminants help build and cool soil, get water into ... crowding also produces piles of concentrated nitrogen- and phosphate-rich manure and waste water that, ...

  22. Rebuilding resilient communities amid climate-induced drought and bushfires

    crisis. The government is offering $50 million for an On-farm Emergency Water Infrastructure Rebate Scheme ... to improve on-farm water management and $36.9 million over five years 鈥渢o improve water security and ... The plan also proposes to spend about $3.5 billion on a national water infrastructure plan that will ...

  23. On guardianship of the biosphere

    environment that fulfils their needs, with food and clean water on it, and protecting and sustaining that ... poisoning of our water in rivers and artesian basins; Stopping urban sprawl to protect prime food growing ...

  24. Death of a dairy cooperative 鈥 Part 1

    were already angry at the $1 a litre milk deal with Coles that valued their product cheaper than water ...

  25. Behind the corporate takeover of Australian agricultural land and farms

    minimise bushfires and keep our water catchments clean. A Land Trust is also needed to buy land off ... in tradeable water entitlements, wasting and polluting our water and closing down our food processing ... investment in agriculture. Instead of moving to ban speculation in water, the Senate standing committee has ...

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