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1. Buru Energy admits to chemical and radioactive waste leakage

   Asgard 1 and Valhalla North 1 fracking flowback waste water ponds. The levels exceeded the World Health ... Organisation limits for acceptable levels for stock water. Representative samples of flowback fluid from Asgard ... and to use the controversial practice of reinjecting fracking flowback water into the Kimberley’s ...

2. Colombians continue national strike

   officers have been attacking protesters with tear gas, stun grenades, water cannons and unconventional ...

3. Marching for climate justice in Timor-Leste

   poorest people in Timor-Leste, are experiencing crop losses, water scarcity, food insecurity, reducing ... infrastructure to provide safe drinking water for everyone. • Commit to and invest in sustainable renewable ...

4. Women lead new mass movement against Indian fascism

   water and medicine, and have set up stages, security cameras and toilet facilities. The movement has ...

5. Turkish invasion threatens iconic women's village in Rojava

   Jinwar, and sharing their bread, food and water here with each other,” explained a November 5 statement by ...

6. Challenge to federal approval of CSG expansion in Queensland

   ignored plans by Santos to discharge large volumes of CSG waste water into the Dawson River. Western Downs ... Impact Statement for the project predicts that it will impact on 73 water bores used by landholders in ... the area, and will extract 219 billion litres of water over the life of the project and produce 22 ...

7. Great Barrier Reef at risk from port expansion

   water corals to die. “As well, the latest Reef report card rates water quality in the Great Barrier Reef ... as a D, which is very poor. Dredging will only add to this problem. The poor water quality will make ... Reef ecosystems. This maintenance dredge spoil would be dumped in the water about 4 kilometres east of ...

8. Contamination concerns after CSG wells flood

   to the Nepean River and the upper canal, which carries drinking water from Nepean Dam to Prospect ... contaminating this water with carcinogenic chemicals and volatile organic compounds. This contamination risk was ... untreated waste water from AGL's Camden CSG wells has been dumped into the Nepean River during the ...

9. 13,000 people tell O’Farrell to ban CSG in catchments

   government to: "Ban all coal seam gas prospecting and mining in New South Wales drinking water catchment ... supplies our drinking water protected. "CSG exploration and mining always involves unearthing water ... involves methane leaks and industrial development that's incompatible with our drinking water ...

10. Farmers say ‘No’ to Santos in the Pilliga

    ����������’s waters, chemicals and huge amounts of water will be forced through those pipes, bringing the gas ... to the surface for capture.” The precarious nature of water in Australia and the fear that this ... of the continent and thought to contain 64,000 cubic kilometres of ground water. It is a vast reserve ...

11. Rally for the river

    Murray River do not receive a substantial flow of fresh water soon, the ecology of the region is likely ... ecosystems to regional environments, including that they provide carbon sinks and natural water filtering. ... Pipe group told the rally about the Victorian Labor government's plan to pipe water from the ...

12. AGL accused of releasing wastewater into Sydney's sewerage system

    March 2 to prevent Transpacific Waste Water from accepting waste water from AGL's coal seam gas ... about Transpacific's handling of AGL's waste water by blockading their trucks. Toxic water is ... AGL's waste water into the sewerage system. This puts waterways at risk, as contaminants in waterways ...

13. Traditional owners demand NT fracking ban

    fracking on our land, on our country. “We are concerned about the damage to our water, our country, our ... dreaming and our songlines. This damage would be irreversible. “We don’t want to see our rivers and waters ... contaminate our water and damage our health. Drilling in one area has a bigger impact than just that place. It ...

14. Coal-seam mining by stealth?

    coal-seam gas mining under Sydney’s drinking water catchment. The documents show gas-drilling company Apex ... mentioning the coal-seam gas aspect of the expansion, which had the potential to contaminate water supplies. ... plan in the protected Sydney water catchment was controversial and then moved to disguise its ...

15. Community calls for a halt to Santos gas 'exploration' in Narrabri

    ecosystems; when it plans to dump waste water into Bohena Creek; how it will monitor the creek for ammonia in ... particular, and its plans for managing waste water in extreme weather events. It also wanted more information ... about the company's produced water management system, groundwater monitoring and waste management ...

16. Oil company to drill off Newcastle

    testing in the waters off Newcastle poses an unacceptable risk for ocean habitat, marine wildlife ... intervene and ban this risky activity from the waters off Newcastle and elsewhere in the state waters. Our ...

17. Tar sands pipeline protests outside Citibank

    happen. Tar sands oil pipelines have a history of destruction: they tear up land, pollute water and cause ... and low-income communities, where they poison the water supply and traumatise local people. They are ...

18. Newcastle youth blocks coal trains for third time this week

    polluted air, water and food, and eventually have kids of my own some day." Front Line Action on Coal ...

19. Indigenous campaigner wins national environment award

    Dam uranium mine. The mine uses some 35 million litres of Great Artesian Basin water each day, free of ... charge, and is trying to further increase its water allocation. According to ACF executive director Don ...

20. Hundreds unite against drilling in Great Australian Bight

    waters of the Great Australian Bight. The same day, Kangaroo Island mayor Peter Clements spoke at ... around the world who are fighting to protect their Country, livelihoods, and water from dangerous oil ... marine environment, with 85% of its marine species found only in these waters. The Bight is a haven for ...

21. Northern Territory buckles to federal pressure on gas

    land and water. She said those who rely on tourism, agriculture, pastoralism and fishing for their ... gas wells, water impacts and widespread industrialisation”. The Beetaloo Sub-Basin, 500 kilometres ... roughshod over communities and the Territory’s water resources.” The Don’t Frack the Territory group said ...

22. Anger at granting of new gas permit in the south west

    being forced to live in a gasfield. “The government is ignoring our right to protect our land, water ... and water from an invasive and unnecessary industry. “The department claims this permit is for ...

23. Queensland government breaks Reef promise

    trans-shipping activities in Queensland waters and the Great Barrier Reef, which backs away from that promise. ... which are already under pressure from climate change, catchment water quality and existing port and ... to apply for a licence, and could not load ships in reef waters unless “the activity cannot be ...

24. Bylong Valley fights Kepco coalmine

    proposed mine site for 27 years. He said the mine would affect his farm’s water supply and, despite ... operating officer Bill Vatovec assured locals the mine would not affect the village’s water supply. “We are ... very confident with the amount of water supply that we have,” he said. “The water licences are more ...

25. Clearing our rainfall away

    that are contributing to it. "Vegetation does not just respond to rainfall. It recycles water from ... transferred to the atmosphere in water vapour. The resultant clouds also help shade and cool the surface. ... woodlands has also resulted in rising water-tables and brought long-buried saline ground-waters towards the ...

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