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• Council responds to tip worries
The Orange City Council says it has addressed community concerns about the increased traffic which will be generated by its planned regional rubbish tip near Molong.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Snowy council to conduct rate survey
The Snowy River Shire Council in the New South Wales South East says it will conduct a rural rate payer survey, to determine if a change to council fees needs to be made.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Cash for Trash scheme takes off
Port Hedland's Cash for Trash program is off to a good start, with more than 100 people handing in their recyclable goods since the beginning of the year.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Govt dumps recycling group
The ACT Government is moving to evict recycling group Revolve for a second time.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Proposed logging raises catchment fears
A new action group on the New South Wales far south coast says there are serious public health concerns relating to planned logging in a nearby forest.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Investment hope remains for bioenergy plant
Advocates of bioenergy say there is a chance a private investor may build a plant in western Victoria.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Sewage spill closes east coast oyster beds
Some oyster harvesting areas on Tasmania's east coast have been closed because of a sewage spill at St Helens.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• WA has country's worst recycling rate
A new report has shown that West Australians produce the most waste per capita in the nation but recycles the least.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Council adopts rubbish strategy
A 10 year waste management strategy has been adopted by the Mackay Regional Council to keep up with the area's predicted population growth.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Tip closure to boost truck traffic
The Cairns Regional Council is warning heavy trucks movements on the Kuranda Range Road could double this week after the closure of the main Cairns dump at Portsmith.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Public asked to dob in illegal dumpers
The Wollondilly Shire Council is seeking legal advice as to whether it can investigate illegal rubbish dumpers dobbed in by residents.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• B and J Bentley cops $12.5K dumping fine
A Warracknabeal company has been fined $12,500 for dumping industrial waste on two properties in 2008.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Green waste recycling offered to Brisbane homeowners
Brisbane residents will soon be able to order an extra wheelie bin to dispose of grass clippings and garden rubbish.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Councils help form shires' association policy
A meeting between seven councils and the Shires Association of New South Wales took place in Grafton, on the state's north coast, yesterday.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Council starts town camp rubbish pick-up
Town camp residents in Alice Springs will have their first council rubbish collection today.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Snowy garbage issue goes sour
A New South Wales Snowy Mountains action group says it is worried that behaviour at a protest about waste services may have harmed its cause.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Council reaches septic waste agreement
The Snowy River Shire Council in the New South Wales South East has reached an agreement to dispose septic waste at a nearby council's holding facility.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Public asked to help clean up Gippsland
Gippsland residents are being urged to take part in Clean Up Australia Day this Sunday.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Council snubs Kochs Rd tip plan
The Mackay Regional Council has rejected a proposal for a waste and recycling facility at The Leap.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Oyster growers optimistic of resuming after sewage spill
A major Tasmanian oyster growing company expects its east coast operations will return to normal today after a sewage spill halted production.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Council to pay for tyres removal
Landholders at Reedy Creek in Loomberah will be able to dispose of hundreds of unwanted tyres from their properties for free.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Drink bottle recycling plan floated
The Tasmanian Greens want to introduce a state-based container deposit scheme to reduce the amount of empty drink bottles and cans on roadsides.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Govt must maintain recycling services: Opposition
The ACT Opposition says it is worried the Government's conflict with Revolve will have an impact on recycling services in Canberra.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• South-west properties checked for gas danger
More than 130 buildings in Adelaide's south-west are being tested for landfill gas.
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
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• French Experts Say Doubts Remain on GMO Maize Risks 
French experts said on Wednesday serious doubts remained over whether the only genetically modified (GMO) crop grown in France was safe, a move likely to prompt the extension of a current ban on GMOs.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
• Corn... fuel... fire! U.S. corn subsidies promote Amazon deforestation
According to Laurance, whose findings are reported this week in Science (December 14), a recent spike in Amazonian fires is being promoted by massive US subsidies that promote American corn production for ethanol. The ethanol is being blended with gasoline as an automobile fuel.
"American taxpayers are spending $11 billion a year to subsidize corn producers—and this is having some surprising global consequences," said Laurance.
The US is the world's leading producer of soy, but many American soy farmers are shifting to corn to qualify for the government subsidies. Since 2006, US corn production rose 19% while soy farming fell by 15%.
The drop-off in US soy has helped to drive a major increase in global soy prices, which have nearly doubled in the last 14 months. In Brazil, the world's second-largest soy producer, high soy prices are having a serious impact on the Amazon rainforest and tropical savannas.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
• Apple may be cool but it comes last on green list - Environment Australia
Apple Computer may be cool and hip with consumers, but it is anything but a trend-setter when it comes to good environmental policies, Greenpeace says.
Saturday, December 9, 2006
• Greens slam environmental law overhaul - Environment Australia
Parliament has approved a major overhaul of Australia's environmental laws which green groups have lamented as a backward step for the country's natural habitat.
Saturday, December 9, 2006
• 'I can't go to Iraq. I can't kill those children' - Suicide soldier's dying words to his mother
While his peers from St Augustine's Catholic school were this month contemplating university careers or first jobs, Jason Chelsea was preoccupied with a different future: his first tour of duty in Iraq.
Friday, December 8, 2006
• Growth of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerating - CSIRO
Global emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have more than doubled since 1990 and the rate of increase is accelerating, according to new information gathered and analyzed by the Australian government research service.
Friday, December 8, 2006
• Jimmy Carter: Israeli 'domination' over Palestinians is 'atrocious' - Environment Australia
Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter called Israeli "domination" over Palestinians "atrocious" during an interview Monday on ABC's Good Morning America.
Friday, December 8, 2006
• San Diego to ban Wal-Mart Supercenters - Environment Australia
The City Council here voted late Tuesday to ban certain giant retail stores, dealing a blow to Wal-Mart Stores Inc's potential to expand in the nation's eighth-largest city.
Friday, December 8, 2006
• Wind industry sniffs new direction
The Australian wind energy lobby group believes there are progressive attitudes towards the renewable energy on the Australian scene
Friday, November 10, 2006
• Australia lagging behind in solar uptake
Positive action in Germany has seen the industry boom with more than 30,000 jobs, while Australia is stagnant.
Friday, November 10, 2006
• Green groups tackling climate change in Victoria election.
Environment groups have weighed into Victoria's election campaign, calling on political parties to back a seven-point plan to tackle climate change.
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
• Wild Jatropha Stirs Hope of Biodiesel Bounty in India
The glow from burning jatropha seed torches has often saved Maruti Chindu from treading on snakes, but now he carefully nurtures them for a use that he never imagined before -- running cars and trucks.
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
• UN turns up heat on Australia - Environment Australia
THE head of the United Nations environment body has defended the Kyoto Protocol from attack by the Australian Government, and called on politicians to stop making decisions about climate change "based on narrow national self-interest".
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
• Rivers in crisis yet crops off hit list - Environment Australia
THE Murray-Darling river system could run out of water within six months, the Federal Government has warned.
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
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Metals X penalises Chinese partners over delays (thewest.com.au)
Metals X has forced its Chinese partners to pay unspecified penalties for delaying settlement on the $50 million purchase of half the Perth miner's Tasmanian tin operation.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Heavy semi limits in Banyule (Leader Community Newspapers)
BANYULE Council has rejected a transport company's application to increase the size of its trucks using a major road.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Leave No Trace: How To Completely Erase Your Hard Drives (Gizmodo Australia)
With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here’s how to wipe them clean. (more…)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
50 years added to Kembla Grange rubbish tip (Illawarra Mercury)
Planning has started for the next stage of the Whytes Gully Waste Depot, which will extend the rubbish dump's life by almost 50 years.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Sustainable living in the big smoke (Lake Times)
ACCORDING to Daniel Deighton, one of the key functions of permaculture gardening was to try and redefine what a suburb could look like. “It’s about trying to bring life back into the suburbs and make them more liveable,” he said.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Bellamy strikes again (Herald Sun)
MELBOURNE Storm coach Craig Bellamy should wear a green crown, because he is the king of recycling.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Unfrozen Investa is planning office buy-up (The Australian)
THE unlisted $1 billion-plus Investa Commercial Property Fund this week became the first among its peers to reopen redemptions.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Govt must maintain recycling services: Opposition (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
The ACT Opposition says it is worried the Government's conflict with Revolve will have an impact on recycling services in Canberra.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Govt dumps recycling group (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
The ACT Government is moving to evict Canberra's best known recycling organisation Revolve for a second time.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
WA has country's worst recycling rate (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
A new report has shown that West Australians produce the most waste per capita in the nation but recycle the least.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
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