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human rights

environment

Australia

Protest at BHP Billiton AGM, Melbourne, 17 November 2011

Submitted by peter on Sat, 26/11/2011 - 8:53pm

Traditional owners and environmentalists descended on the Melbourne Convention Centre on Thursday 17 November for the BHP Billiton AGM. Using proxies, some twenty Aboriginal elders and supporters gained access to the meeting, while others held a protest outside.

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Fracking Gas = Climate Crash

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 23/11/2011 - 4:56pm

For years, governments, industry, and TV ads told us natural gas is the safe bridge fuel while we move away from dirty coal and oil.

Cornell University scientist Robert Howarth wondered "Is that true?". When Howarth found no science to back up big claims for the gas industry, he and a team from Cornell went to work.

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Rainforest Logging Breach: Protesters onsite at Survey Rd

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 21/11/2011 - 8:45am

GECO Media Release Monday 21 November, 2011

Rainforest logging breach:
Protesters on site at Survey Road

This morning conservationists have again halted logging in rainforest on Survey Road in far East Gippsland. Five logging machines have been cabled off to a treesit in the forest canopy.

“As if it wasn’t enough that VicForests had sent their logging contractors into a coupe containing precious old-growth forest; conservationists have now verified that rainforest has been logged on site as well”, said spokesperson Amelia Young.

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Logging East Gippsland old growth forests destroys wildlife refugia in a warming climate

Submitted by takver on Thu, 17/11/2011 - 11:41am

Environmental activists have been out in old growth Forests in East Gippsland this week attempting to stop more rape of our natural environment and protecting important refugia habitats for endangered species. Logging operations on Survey Rd on the Errinundra Plateau were halted by a tree-sit attached to five logging machines and suspended 40 metres up in the tree canopy.

"In the face of recent Baillieu government moves to weaken the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, conservationists have again taken their message to logging sites where important wildlife habitat continues to be logged for woodchips", said Ms Amelia Young, spokesperson for the conservationists of the Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) (Facebook).

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Labor backflip on uranium

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 15/11/2011 - 1:41pm

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is pressing the Australia Labor Party to overturn a decades old ban on exporting Uranium to India. Meanwhile the high echelons of the Labor Party are pushing for Labor to expand Uranium Mining within Australia. Previously Labor has rejected exporting uranium to India because it is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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environment

Australia

Tree sit stops logging in old growth forest on the Errinundra Plateau, East Gippsland.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 14/11/2011 - 1:09pm

GECO Media Release 14/11/11

Tree-sit stops old-growth logging

Conservationists highlighting the ongoing destruction of old-growth forests in East Gippsland have stopped logging on the Errinundra Plateau by attaching a tree-sit to five logging machines.

The tree-sit is suspended 40 metres high in the tree canopy and is held up by interwoven rope that is tied to the equipment.

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Environment going backwards under Ted Baillieu

Submitted by takver on Sun, 13/11/2011 - 11:22pm

Victorian Environment groups gathered to protest the Environment and climate actions of the Baillieu Victorian State Government on Sunday November 13, 2011 on the steps of State Parliament. To highlight the direction the Government is taking Victoria's environment, the protesters marched backwards to the Treasury Gardens.

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How to use a bikelock to save the Great Barrier Reef - protest halts Gladstone dredging

Submitted by takver on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 3:05pm

Derec Davies used a bicycle U lock to attach himself to a dredger in Gladstone Harbour this morning. The direct action was taken to protect the Great Barrier Reef against the development of Gladstone harbour liquefied natural gas facilities on Curtis Island to export Coal Seam Gas. Massive Dredging of the Gladstone harbour is occurring which fisherman and environmentalists say is causing turbidity in the water and causing illness of fish effectively closing down the local fishing industry. Development is endangering the World Heritage status of the Great Barrier Reef.

Related: In 2010 Conservationists criticised government over coal ship grounding on Great Barrier Reef near Gladstone | Capricorn Conservation Council: The LNG invasion of Curtis Island | ABC TV Four Corners: Great Barrier Grief | Getup! petition to Save the reef

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Seven billion ... and rising

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 12:11am

By Walden Bello

The world’s population surpassed 7 billion on October 31. But except for perhaps the anti-family planning lobby, this was a milestone that few were in a mood to celebrate.

Concerns about overpopulation were present when the world hit the 6 billion mark in 1999, but they were subdued in that era of growth and — at least in the North — optimism. There was a sense then that although there would be major hurdles along the way, the world’s future could only get brighter.

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environment