High Court rules for Aboriginal land rights, against South Australian govt
In December, the South Australian Supreme Court found Ms Portolesi had denied landowners “procedural fairness” by ignoring for seven months a request for authority over land at Lake Torrens in the state’s mid-north. On the same day she responded to their request, she approved a mining company’s application to disturb a site of significance.
SA Labor’s land rights appeal rejected BY: SARAH MARTIN From: The Australian May 12, 2012 THE High Court has thrown out an appeal by the South Australian Labor government against Aboriginal landowners, deeming it not to be in the public interest. Continue reading
New ARENA appointments – but will they toe Ferguson’s anti renewable energy line?
First appointments to ARENA Board, Ecogeneration, 10 May 2012 The Federal Government has announced a number of appointments to the board of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, set to begin operation on 1 July 2012.
Greg Bourne has been announced as acting chair of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) Board, while Dr Brian Spalding and Drew Clarke have also been welcomed to the board. Mr Bourne brings to the board an extensive background in renewable energy development and project commercialisation, including as a former director of Carnegie Wave Energy and as Chief Executive of the World Wildlife Fund Australia.
Dr Spalding is a current Australian Energy Market Commissioner with more than 30 years’ experience in power system operations, and provides continuity from the board of the Australian Centre for Renewable Energy.
ARENA is a component of the Federal Government’s Clean Energy Future package, consolidating $3.2 billion in funding for renewable energy innovation….. http://ecogeneration.com.au/news/first_appointments_to_arena_board/069117/#
Chernobyl photographs never seen before
Never-seen-before shots of Chernobyl nuclear disaster that cost two of the four photographers their liveshttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142849/Haunting-shots-Chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-revealed-true-scale-catastrophe–cost-photographers-lives.html?ito=feeds-newsxml By DAILY MAIL REPORTER, 11 May 2012 These are the haunting images that captured the true scale of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The black and white shots, taken in the weeks following the 1986 Ukraine tragedy, revealed the truth behind the tragedy Soviet authorities were trying to hush up. But despite helping the outside world to understand what happened that fateful April 26 day, the pictures have had a devastating human cost. Of the four photographers chronicling the tragedy, Anatoly Rasskazov and Valery Zufarov have died from radiation-related diseases and Igor Kostin is constantly ill from the exposure.
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