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Wong says water fund won’t wash

admin /22 December, 2007

CLIMATE Change Minister Penny Wong has refused to commit to providing low-interest loans to desperate irrigators in South Australia’s Riverland.
 
The Australian  

But in a visit to Renmark to meet irrigator groups and local government leaders, she said the federal Government would consider all options put to it.

The South Australian senator’s appearance in the Riverland, where fruit and winegrowers face water shortages, has buoyed the community.

South Australian Murray Irrigators director Tim Whetstone said: "It’s a breath of fresh air within the community and for the irrigators. We’ve had so little representation up here to look at our needs and the pressure that we’re facing.

"The last government announced a water plan and then did nothing about it. They put it on the mantelpiece, and that’s where it stayed."

US names China, India and Brazil as climate deal stoppers

admin /15 December, 2007

The United States has expressed “serious concerns” at the climate deal reached in Bali because it allows the economies of China, India and Brazil to power ahead. A statement from the White House said that it would not engage in negotiations unless “wealthier emerging economies” also commit to serious emissions cuts. While some commentators feel Continue Reading →

Gold Coast halves water use

admin /15 December, 2007

A combination of restrictions and consumer education have cut the use of water on Queensland’s Gold Coast from over 300 litres per person per day to less than 140. Premier Bligh, in a speech about waters critical role in Queensland politics said, “Without a doubt, the most extraordinary achievement in relation to water that we Continue Reading →

Political foes unite over power sell off

admin /15 December, 2007

Unions have held stop work meetings at two electricity generation plants in the Hunter Valley in response to letters from the owner of the plants, Macquarie Generation, about its management plans following the privatisation. The Greens, the Liberal Party and the Unions all oppose the privatisation of the electricity industry for a variety of reasons. Continue Reading →

Save Bali from US, Japan and Rudd

admin /12 December, 2007

The US, Canada and Japan are climate-wrecking at Bali – here’s our global emergency petition to save the talks, add your name automatically by clicking below! " We call urgently for the US, Canada and Japan to stop blocking serious 2020 targets for emissions reductions, and for the rest of the world to refuse to Continue Reading →

“Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic

admin /5 December, 2007

Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t

by F. William Engdahl
Global Research, December 4, 2007

One thing Microsoft founder Bill Gates can’t be accused of is sloth. He was already programming at 14, founded Microsoft at age 20 while still a student at Harvard. By 1995 he had been listed by Forbes as the world’s richest man from being the largest shareholder in his Microsoft, a company which his relentless drive built into a de facto monopoly in software systems for personal computers.


Doomsday Seed Vault
 

In 2006 when most people in such a situation might think of retiring to a quiet Pacific island, Bill Gates decided to devote his energies to his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest ‘transparent’ private foundation as it says, with a whopping $34.6 billion endowment and a legal necessity to spend $1.5 billion a year on charitable projects around the world to maintain its tax free charitable status. A gift from friend and business associate, mega-investor Warren Buffett in 2006, of some $30 billion worth of shares in Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway put the Gates’ foundation into the league where it spends almost the amount of the entire annual budget of the United Nations’ World Health Organization.

So when Bill Gates decides through the Gates Foundation to invest some $30 million of their hard earned money in a project, it is worth looking at.

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