SA builds desal for Uranium
Premier Mike Rann on tour in Chile with BHP executive announces desalination plant to expand BHP Uranium mine at Olympic Dam. Full story.
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pasture cropping stores carbon and improves soil health
Pasture management techniques developed on the Northern Rivers can sequester enormous quantities of carbon in the soil. The techniques also improve soil health, and reduce the amount of energy required to manage the pasture.
The NSW department of Primary Industry is now planning to test the techniques across New South Wales. By reducing the amount of tilling that occurs, and encouraging deep rooted grasses, the amount of plant matter that stays in the soil is increased, storing carbon and encouraging microbial life that improves soil health.
The Department of Primary Industry is calling for expressions of interest from farmers willing to trial the techniques.
Climate change ‘apocalyptic hysteria’
Wiritng in the Courier Mail, Terry McCann called Nicholas Stern’s review of the impact of global warming "alpocalyptic hysteria masquerading as economic analysis. The Stern Review purports to examine the economics of climate change. It does no such thing. It merely preaches the same apocalyptic hysteria. Stern said on 28 March 2007 if the industrial world cut carbon dioxide emissions by between 60 and 90 per cent by 2050 the cost would be equivalent to 1 per cent of global GDP a year. The off-setting benefit would be between 5 and 20 per cent of global GDP a year. A sort of “negative” benefit, because that is what we would lose if we didn’t stop emissions and we were overwhelmed by catastrophic temperature change", he said.
Mutton bird slaughter in Tasmania
Peak animal welfare body Animals Australia has joined with local animal protection group Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania (AACT) and the Tasmanian Conservation Trust to call for the Tasmanian government to end the annual brutal slaughter of up to 200,000 Shearwater (migratory mutton birds). The annual killing commences on Saturday 31 March.
Karen Bevis, Campaign Coordinator for AACT said,”Tasmania is the only state in the country which still allows these migratory birds to be killed. The Tasmanian government should ensure that these birds are recognised as being an internationally important species”.
Their call comes just prior to the start of the 2007 recreational short-tailed shearwater hunt, during which tens of thousands of shearwater chicks will be dragged from their sand dune burrows and brutally killed – by neck twisting or breaking – by hunters during the annual hunt. Government figures from the 2006 hunt show that recreational hunters reported taking 55,227 juvenile shearwaters; the final figure, however, will be higher as more than 70 hunters failed to report their kills for inclusion in statistical data. Almost 100,000 chicks were also reported killed in the 2006 ‘commercial’ hunt.
Uncle Joe shaves for a cure
On March 17, Uncle Joe shaved his head to help raise funds for the Leukemia foundation. Here are the before and after pictures. Sponsor Uncle Joe by clicking here Before After
Call that humiliation?
No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch By Terry Jones 03/31/07 "The Guardian" — — I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It is a disgrace. We would never dream Continue Reading →