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Minister's intervention in golf course relocation could impact on 90% of voters within his electorate.
February 20, 2014
February 20 2013 Environmental organisation Friends of the Earth expressed further concern about Minister Guy's intervention in the relocation of Eastern Golf Course. On February 8, the Minister amended the property address, where the...
Read More Add your reaction ShareNSW declares no go zones for CSG. Victorian government should do the same.
February 20, 2014
February 19, 2013 Friends of the Earth Media release. In a significant shift in policy, the NSW government has bowed to community pressure and announced the creation of No Go Zones for coal seam...
Read More Add your reaction SharePlanning Minister Intervenes In Golf Course Saga
February 20, 2014
FEBRUARY 11 2013 PRESS RELEASE Friends of the Earth today expressed its disappointment at the actions of Planning Minister Matthew Guy in amending the Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme in order to facilitate the construction...
Read More Add your reaction ShareMining magnate Gina Rinehart buys into Victorian coal and gas exploration
February 20, 2014
Local mining company Lakes Oil has long been trying – without success - to commercialise oil and gas operations in both Western Victoria and Gippsland. “Today's announcement that Gina Rinehart’s company Hancock Prospecting has...
Read More Add your reaction ShareQuality drinking water for 3.4 million Australians only an “aspiration"
February 20, 2014
Last Thursday Friends of the Earth attended a pre-briefing on the soon-to-be-released Proposed Basin Plan. Amongst many disappointments in the document was this shocking bit of back-pedaling: water quality and salinity targets, critical to...
Read More Add your reaction ShareConcerns raised over MDBA decision to increase groundwater limits
February 20, 2014
The Murray Darling Basin Authority is charged with regulating groundwater acquifers as well as surface water. But in new leaks it appears they are looking to more than double extraction - "That's a huge...
Read More Add your reaction ShareMurray-Darling Rivers doomed by Authority's plan
February 20, 2014
The Barmah-Millewa Collective joined more than a dozen peak environmental groups recently for a special briefing by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. What we heard was what we were expecting from the recent leaks about...
Read More Add your reaction ShareScientific Review Commissioned... But Flawed
February 20, 2014
This year there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s (MDBA) scientific modeling, culminating with a walk-out by the Wentworth Group in May. Environmental groups including Friends of the Earth have...
Read More Add your reaction ShareMurray-Darling Basin Plan DELAYED
February 20, 2014
There has been a major development in our campaign for healthy environmental flows in the Murray-Darling Basin: the draft Basin Plan’s release has been postponed from August to early November. This means that the...
Read More Add your reaction ShareWhy we want a strong Basin Plan: "I love.. / We Can.." Photo Collage Short Film
February 20, 2014
On 7th and 8th of July a dozen volunteers from Friends of the Earth and the Students of Sustainability Conference took to the main street of Albury armed with blank chalkboards and time to...
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