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  1. New CSG policy in NSW breaks promises and fails to protect drinking water

    land and water. Stop CSG Illawarra has described the plans released today as a disaster and a broken ... election promise; and one that fails to protect drinking water catchments. Spokesperson Jess Moore said: ... "The government promised to create no-go zones to protect water, agriculture and the environment from ...

  2. Betrayed: four CSG licence renewals offered in the Illawarra

    one in the drinking water catchment. 鈥淐ommunities have made it clear that science must come before ... development, and that land and water must be protected. Instead, fracking's back on and exploration across ... our water catchments 鈥 is off limits to CSG development. 鈥淥鈥橣arrell promised to ban exploration and ...

  3. New rules open all of NSW to coal seam gas mining

    Regional Land Use Policy on September 11. The public was told the policy would protect land and water from ... leader Barry O'Farrell promised to ban exploration and mining in drinking water catchments. He said: ... 鈥淭he next Liberal/National government will ensure that mining cannot occur 鈥 in any water catchment ...

  4. NSW gov鈥檛 opens the floodgates to CSG, renews 22 exploration licenses

    contempt and their concerns about the protection of land and water over-ruled with the renewal of 22 ... the Sydney drinking water catchment, putting at risk water supplies for 4.2 million people and ... for a litany of environmental failures including contamination of soils and pollution of water ...

  5. Illawarra, Sydney human sign protests to slam CSG mining

    the Illawarra have been renewed, including one in the drinking water catchment. [Barry] O'Farrell ... promised to ban exploration and mining in the drinking water catchment. This was 鈥 quite clearly 鈥 a lie. ... land, water and communities at risk [and make] it clear that the government thinks CSG profits are more ...

  6. Overfishing: A major threat to our oceans

    pressure and banned the supertrawler from operating in Australian waters for two years. During this time ... world's second-largest trawler and would have been the largest ship ever to fish in Australian waters. The ... supertrawlers like the Abel Tasman are able to work in previously unfished waters. Under the logic of capitalism ...

  7. The dark side of the 鈥榞reen economy鈥

    argument: 鈥淓cosystems provide trillions of dollars in clean water, flood protection, fertile lands, clean ... its services? The same way we would electricity, potable water, or natural gas. We pay for it.鈥 The ... resources: minerals before they are mined, forests before they are felled, water while it is still in the ...

  8. Big polluters ignore Arctic tipping point

    crisis. Most of the Arctic ice lies below the water and its decline has been gaining pace. The US Polar ...

  9. South Africa: World Bank's role in mine massacre, climate change

    complex, spewing vast pollution and undergirding apartheid. The old mines wrecked the water system with ...

  10. Kellie Tranter: 'We have to stand up to protect WikiLeaks and Assange'

    its own. Only a week ago 13 civilians were killed by drone strikes in a country that has dire water ...

  11. Eyewitness account of police riot against peaceful Muslim protest in Australia

    Anti-racism Democracy Imperialism & war Rachel Evans Police forces, police powers and policing Police brutality, killings, shootings and violence Islam Muslims Gadigal Country/Sydney I was attending a small but engaging rally against internet spying o ...