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admin /15 February, 2009
A new Queensland farm lobby group, FutureFood, was formed last week to represent farmers whose land is under threat from proposed mines. “We are not an anti-mine group, but some prime farmland simply shouldn’t be mined,” said co-chairs Geoff Hewitt and Charlie Wilson. “It defies logic that a farm capable of producing premium food for thousands of years into the future, would be permanently destroyed to allow for 20 years of coal mining.” The group described food security as an issue that could put the Murray Darling crisis in the shade.
admin /15 February, 2009
As the government horsetraded with Senator Xenophon to bring forward the purchase of water allocations for the Darling and Murray Rivers, Australia’s largest agribusines, ICM, was girding its legal loins for battle over the price of water on the Lachlan River. Opeartior of a large citrus orchard, grain, pulse and cotton farms on the Lacklan River, ICM Australia claims that the compensation paid under the Acheivable Sustainable Groundwater Entitlements scheme are well short of the “just terms” required by the Constitution.
admin /15 February, 2009
Ministers should prepare the British people to “adapt” in the longer term to a landscape devastated by climate change, including the possible abandonment of parts of London and East Anglia, a leading industry body warns today . Action to curb carbon emissions is failing, so the UK should immediately change the way it designs buildings, Continue Reading →
admin /15 February, 2009
Chief of the Victorian Country Fire Authority, Russell Rees, told reporters last week that his organisation has repeatedly asked the Victorian government to crack down on housing developments in bushland. “Our community is choosing to live in a way that means we simply cannot guarantee their survival,” he said. “Why do we choose to build a civilisation that is not safe?” Over 200 people were killed and 7,000 left homeless as a result of last week’s fires.
admin /15 February, 2009
Award winning NASA scientist, James Hansen, has described coal-fired power plants as ‘factories of death’ and the trains carrying coal as ‘death trains.’ Writing in the UK Guardian last week, he said that the Australian government was elected on the promise to act on climate change but is ‘not a green government it is black, the colour of death’. His article describes the reactions of British, German, Australian and United States leaders to his pleas to take swift action on climate change. He wrote that the science has crystalised in the last three years and it is now unambiguous that we face a major emergency and must act before it is too late. World leaders are in denial, he says.
admin /15 February, 2009
Recent studies in Europe and the United States indicate that the rare brain cancer, nervous system lymphoma, is three times more common than it was one decade ago.
Brain cancers in general are on the increase among the elderly, but account for less than two percent of all cancers. Central nervous system lymphoma accounts for only five percent of all brain cancers. Improvements in methods for detecting brain cancer make it difficult to separate increased reporting from higher incidents of cancer.The mortality from brain cancers in the elderly doubled between 1965 and 1983 and quadrupled among those over 80.
The impact of AIDs and spread of the Epstein Barr virus are possible causes, as are chemical and electromagnetic pollution in the workplace and atmosphere.
