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Phillip Adams Interview with Endersbee
Phillip Adams on Late Night Live (ABC Radio National) interviews Professor Lance Endersbee – “A Dissident View of Water and Warming”
Farmers in N.W fire up as Feds give nod to artesian sales
ANGRY farmers in the North West are trying to organise a boycott of next month’s Great Artesian Basin water auction in Walgett, but the Federal Government has confirmed it has no problems with the NSW Government’s planned sale. Canberra will not step in and override the new water licence auction, with federal Parliamentary Secretary for […]
Alarm over auction of artesian basin water
FARMERS and one of the state’s leading environmental experts have raised concerns over the NSW Government’s decision to auction water licences for the Great Artesian Basin this month, which is likely to open the way for greater water trading in one of the largest underground reservoirs in the world.
Townie Turnbull’s bridle waltz
I once telephoned Senator Bill Heffernan and the conversation began with this exchange: ‘‘Bill, what’s that din in the background?’’ Heffernan: ‘‘I’m on the tractor.’’
‘‘Are you getting any rain?’’ Heffernan: ‘‘The bastard!’’
If the Cap Fits
Landline Program about the Great Artesian basin Sell-off
Olympic Dam EIS: Impact of the world’s biggest mine
BHP has today revealed the environmental effects of its giant Olympic Dam project. Hendrik Gout wrote this article ahead of the media lock-up at which the 4000-page document was released. Incomparable and unimaginable are not synonymous, but Olympic Dam is both. It will be the world’s biggest hole-in-the-ground, the largest copper and uranium quarry on […]