Wrong turn - freeway funds a waste by Kenneth Davidson in the Melbourne Age of 5 May 08
Tunnel could save the dying Murray by Kenneth Davidson in the Melbourne Age of 31 Mar 08
Could a 30-kilometre tunnel from the Upper Yarra Reservoir to Big River, which flows eventually to the Murray River and costing $300 million save the dying Murray River system?
Environment the burning issue for Australians, SMH 16 Apr 08
#PollutionInChina" id="PollutionInChina">Pollution in China
The prosperity that some Australians and Chinese are now enjoying as a result of the boom in the export of our finite non-renewable mineral wealth is being paid for now, by life-threatening pollution. The links below were obtained using the google search terms 'China' and 'pollution'
As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes New York Times, 26 Aug 07
Environment of China, Wikipedia
CHINA'S POLLUTION NIGHTMARE IS NOW EVERYONE'S POLLUTION NIGHTMARE, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar 06
As China rises, pollution soars, International Herald Tribune, 26 Aug 07
Chinese Air Pollution Deadliest in World, Report Says, National Geographic News, 9 Jul 07
The case against immigration by Pete Murphy from the United States, author of Five Short Blasts
Disposable office blocks 'a huge waste of energy' by Steven Lunn of the Australian, 21 Apr 08. Also here, here and here
CONSTRUCTING city buildings to be obsolete after 30 years is a scandalous building industry practice - and one of the most extreme examples of energy inefficiency in modern society, according to international futurist Patrick Dixon. ...
Naomi Klein warns that disaster capitalists will attempt to use financial crisis to steal more publicly owned wealth.and dismantle remains of the US Social Welfare System. Read article Why The Right Loves a Disaster in Common Dreams. Originally published in the Los Angeles Times on 27 January 2008
The Paradox of Production in the Archdruid Report of 26 Mar 08
How the rise in the cost of oil can have unanticipted flow-on effects, causing other forms of energy, bot non-reneable and 'renewable' to be more expensive thatn anticipated.
Dispute rages on over urban growth Bayside Bulletin 15 Nov 07
Queensland State Sustainability Minister Andrew MacNamara has criticised the Redland Shire Council for threatenting the Koala with local exitinction as a result of its promotion of population growth and housing development. Earlier this year as other local government s were resisting The Queensland Government's demands for enforced population growth, Redland Shire actually offered to exceed the population growth targets that the Queensland had intended to demand of it. As a consequence even a minister of the to pro-grwoth Queensland Government recognises the threat that this poses to the local wildlife of Redland Shire.
Bayside Bulletin Story
Murray gums dying at a rate of knots The Age 14 Nov 07
TWO new reports that paint a dire picture of the Murray River say 70 per cent of red gum forest on Australia's greatest waterway is in poor health and declining. ...
Activists seize coal plant Sydney Morning Herald 15 Nov 2007
Fifteen Greenpeace activists occupied a coal-fired power plant on New South Wales' Central Coast this morning, protesting against the climate change policies of both major parties.
Auditor lashes $2.1bn frigate upgrade The Australian 1 Nov 07
THE Australian National Audit Office has launched a scathing indictment of the navy's $2.1 billion frigate upgrade.
The upgrade is four and a half years overdue and projected to run tens of millions of dollars over budget.
www.immigrationwatchcanada.org
Employers caught out on fairness
Media Watch: Telstra's privatisation and ethics - 03/05/2004
Banks Are Thieves (www.banksarethieves.org).
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