Australian unions join Aboriginal opposition to nuclear waste dump
the unions were quite clear about not wanting nuclear material on highways or railway tracks. “All it takes is one accident, one ruptured container,”..“It’s simply not worth the risk and Territorians don’t need this in their backyard.”..
a legal challenge to the Federal Government’s waste dump plans at Muckaty will be heard in October.
Unions pledge support to oppose nuke waste dump – , – Tennant & District Times,19 April 11,TRADE union officials from across Australia have pledged support to traditional owners who oppose the construction of a nuclear waste dump on their land. Continue reading
Liberal party’s truckin’ anti-carbon tax – a bit of a flop
Convoy of no confidence runs short on revs, The Age,,Richard, Willingham, August 23, 2011 ANOTHER sitting week in Parliament and another protest against the carbon tax, this time in the shape of the convoy of no confidence.
This was an angry crowd but a small one, with 300 people gathering on the Parliament lawns as 200 vehicles from all over Australia rolled around Canberra blowing their horns.
Protest organisers, Tony Abbott, Warren Truss and Barnaby Joyce shared the stage and spoke about the evils of the carbon tax, the poor handling of live exports and rising debt – calling for a fresh election…… Continue reading
Mining giant Xstrata (and Glencore?) in court over global warming
it will be the first in Australia to argue for an outright refusal of a mine based on its climate change impacts
Graziers, greenies ally against Xstrata, Brisbane Times, Christine FlatleyAugust 22, 2011 – Global giant Xstrata should be refused permission to open a new coal mine in Queensland that will have serious adverse impacts on the climate and nearby graziers, a court has heard.
Green group Friends of the Earth appeared in the Brisbane Land Court today in an attempt to scuttle an 11,000-hectare coal mine planned for the small town of Wandoan, 400km northwest of Brisbane. Continue reading
Seychelle Islands feeling the effects of climate change
Let us put the people and the science available to improve the lives of people at the centre of climate change.’’…the country was already experiencing changes in line with climate change projections…..
Mr Michel declined to comment on the Australian debate over a carbon tax, …. But he said the government had made generous commitments to help small islands cope and praised its recent shift to an 80 per cent cut in emissions by 2050.
Forget climate ideology’,The Age, Adam MortonAugust 23, 2011 AS THE public debate over climate change becomes increasingly heated, the leader of a small island nation arrived in Australia with a counter-message: the time for ideological conflict is past. Continue reading
USA Republican presidential candidates attack science, especially science of global warming
Rick Perry denounces the concept of man-made global warming as “one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight”..
..poll found that 98 per cent of scientists accepted the idea [of globalwarming]…..
GOP presidential hopefuls rush to deny climate change The Australian Catherine Philp, Washington August 23, 2011 “…..In the past week, the Environmental Protection Agency has become the new target for Republican hopefuls, with conservative candidates scrambling to outdo each other over how quickly they would abolish it. The attacks have exposed a sharp split in the field between those who accept the scientific basis of climate change and those who do not.
Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party insurgent, said that on the first day of her presidency, “the EPA will have the doors locked and lights turned off”. Continue reading
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