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  1. 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.鈥 ... has prevailed and... [I] look forward to the water issues being addressed in all future mining ...

  2. Climate, jobs and immigration: a solution

    disasters that climate change is throwing its way. Its glaciers are melting, affecting the water security of ... millions, in a country that is too poor to have safe, drinkable tap water to start with. Unlike Australia, ... Bolivia cannot simply build expensive (and polluting) desalination plants when water is short. Even if it ...

  3. Guatemala: Six activists killed in six months

    communities were left without water or sanitation and seriously exposed to the risk of infectious diseases.鈥 ... Ocos fighting for free access to drinking water and Union Fenosa鈥檚 expulsion were 鈥渟avagely murdered ...

  4. Racism kills 鈥 Rudd and Abbott鈥檚 anti-refugee hysteria

    vanished in shark-infested waters near the Cocos Islands over May 5-9. They were seeking help for the 59 ... water for at least eight days before the refugees were finally rescued on May 9. But the Labor federal ... 鈥渢rack鈥 boats as they travel towards Australian waters. They do this not to ensure their safety, but to ...

  5. Bolivia鈥檚 mining dilemmas

    where access to fresh water is increasingly scarce, Sumitomo extracts 50,000 litres of underground water ... company to pay for its water usage. Pimentel said this will have to change in the new code set be ... consultation, and plans to divert local river ways to supply the mine with water. This will directly affect ...

  6. Nigerian activist: People鈥檚 climate summit 鈥榓 turning point鈥

    This would lead to the collapse of agriculture, water supplies and a massive increase in climate ...

  7. Natural gas: transition fuel or greenhouse menace?

    oxygen to form water and carbon dioxide. After seven years, half of the methane is gone, and after 20 ...

  8. Tax the super-rich to fund renewables

    conserve and recycle water lost $249 million and bush regeneration programs lost $161 million. The ...

  9. Evo Morales: We must unite on climate

    control their own seeds, lands, water, and technology for food production in harmony with Mother Earth and ...