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On Saturday 13th June 2009, Byron Ballina Greens presented a conference in Mullumbimby entitled "A Green Alternative". Speakers were John kaye Greens MP, Giovanni Ebono, and Tom Tabart Byron Shire Councillor.
John described a green economy as one where we move away from burning coal to producing green energy from renewable sources, ...
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Posted: 14Jun2009 18:02
On the fifth anniversary of the closure of the Casino to Murwillumbah rail line, 'Prime Minister Kevin Rudd' gave the Northern Rivers Community a cheque for $182.5 million!
The infrastructure funds are for establishing a commuter rail service and a start on the link from NSW to QLD. "This figure is half what the Gold Coast is gett...
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Posted: 8Jun2009 15:17
The ACT Commissioner for the Environment has launched a State of the Environment report for the Region.
The report covers an area from Young to Eden including the ACT and examines future sustainability challenges and opportunities.
Commissioner Maxine Cooper says the region has enormous potent...
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Bolting across New York Citys Triborough Bridge the red dumpster truck spewed thick black smoke but its toxic fumes met a quick end with the arrival of two environmental police cars.
The polluting driver who was heading toward Manhattan from the northern New York borough of the Bronx seemed surpr...
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The federal Greens say they are worried the Government is not being open with Indigenous people in its discussion paper on the intervention.
The Greens indigenous policy spokeswoman Rachel Siewert says the discussion paper does not make it clear what peoples rights are when it comes to income man...
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A claim by an Australian virus researcher that swine flu may have been created by human error is being investigated by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Former Australian National University scientist Professor Adrian Gibbs says the virus could have been created in laboratories which grow viru...
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A SECRET Tillegra Dam memo that Hunter Water has tried to keep under wraps should be made public, a retired Supreme Court judge has found.
The water authority had claimed legal privilege over the memo, which was sent from general manager Kevin Young to senior staff in the office of then water utilities minister David Campbell on September 29,...
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Posted: 29Jun2009 01:38
On Monday 1st June, Ballina Climate Action Network hosted a film and discussion evening with a screening of Leonardo Di Caprio’s Eleventh Hour.
The film is scientifically accurate but also emotionally confronting, as it presents the science of climate change through the words of a host of eminent scientists, commentators and authors.
"Th...
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Posted: 3Jun2009 12:26
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Posted: 8Feb2009 10:58
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