tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66013551037169000502024-03-14T16:57:37.834+08:00Hands off CountryDespite being confronted with the full force and influence of Woodside and its bedfellows, dissenting communities are fighting might with right. Woodside Vs The GoodsideRed Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.comBlogger1733125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-27926403451583485042014-10-19T13:32:00.000+08:002014-10-19T13:39:46.047+08:00Fresh Eyes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Host Simon Baker travels to Northwest Australia to visit one Aboriginal
tribe defending their 'Song Cycle' and way of life as their government
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powerful story on Walmadan (James Price Point). Amazing when its put
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Yawuru People - Making a stand against fracking
reaching thousands of people as they make their way to the races in Broome
today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The Mining Company Buru - lead this risky
environmental venture which could be just another failed attempt by a Company
to run roughshod over communities in NW Australia. Woodside’s withdrawal from
James Price Point in 2013 and more recently French nuclear power giant Areva
has abandoned a Kimberley uranium project. With Buru’s falling share price, No Social Licence, delays and low cash flow the writing seems to be on the wall.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">In short - Fracking is the process of drilling then
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">During this process, methane gas and toxic chemicals can
leak from wells and contaminate nearby groundwater. Broome draws its drinking
water from the ground. Buru Energy have plans to frack the Kimberley. The US,
there have been more than 1000 documented cases of water contamination near
areas of gas drilling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Some of the countries that have banned fracking are
France, Bulgaria and Northern Ireland. The Australian state of Victoria
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The Kimberley region of Western Australia is known to most Australians for its wild beauty. But it's also rich in minerals, and potentially gas.</div>
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The so-called 'tight gas' is locked deep underground in the sandstone layers of the Canning Basin in the Southern Kimberley. Optimistic estimates predict that reserves of unconventional gas could power Western Australia for 500 years.</div>
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But it's expensive, there are technical hurdles to overcome, and environmental groups and native title holders oppose the use of chemicals and fracking technology.</div>
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<a href="http://tropicalbiology.org/resolution21/">ATBC Resolution in Support of Stronger Laws for Climate-change Mitigation and Environmental Protection in Australia </a><br />
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At this 2014 annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, in Cairns, Australia, we, the association representing 589 scientists and conservationists from 55 nations including Australia DECLARE:</div>
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Whereas, the industrialised Commonwealth of Australia has one of the world’s highest per capita greenhouse-gas emission rates in the world, and relies primarily on fossil fuels for its electricity generation, it still is a major contributor to global climate disruption.</div>
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Whereas, human-caused climate disruption (global warming) is now one of the greatest threats to species and ecosystems worldwide, and will increasingly exacerbate the current extinction crisis arising from human endeavour.</div>
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Whereas, Australia has experienced severe fragmentation of biologically unique habitats as a result of human development, in part resulting in the world’s highest mammal extinction rate, and a major loss of other plant and animal species.</div>
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Whereas Australia has recently weakened or overturned decades of legislation designed to protect its sensitive natural ecosystems and species, as well as altered demonstrably effective climate-change mitigation strategies such as elimination of the carbon-pricing scheme.</div>
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Therefore, be it resolved that the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Urges the Commonwealth Government to reconsider its stance on a financial penalty system to limit its greenhouse gas emissions, and that it implement a mandatory emissions-trading scheme in light of its recent decision to overturn the existing carbon-pricing scheme. The Commonwealth Government’s ‘Direct Action’ plan to reduce its emissions will be ineffective for reducing emissions.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Implores the Commonwealth Government to retain its Renewable Energy Target to maximise renewable energy penetration in its electricity-generation sector.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Commends the Commonwealth Government’s recent announcement to appoint Australia’s first Threatened Species Commissioner and a Ministerial Council on the Environment to advise the Commissioner, but encourages the Government to instate some legislative power to the position as it currently lacks decision-making power to effect real change to threatened-species policies.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Implores the Commonwealth Government not to devolve national oversight of industrial and urban development potentially exacerbating the status of Australia’s threatened species. The Government should not allow individual Australian states to weaken or overturn national legislation such as the <em style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 199</em>9 given the recent trends for state governments to relax laws for vegetation clearing and to allow industrial activities such as logging, grazing, fishing and mining in ‘national’ parks and other protected areas.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Urges the government to reinstate a major funding scheme to the only independent legal entity available to limit environmentally destructive human development – the Environmental Defenders Office. Without funding to continue this essential legal representation for environmental-related cases, rampant and demonstrably damaging development will go unchecked.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Implores the Commonwealth Government to abandon its attempt to remove the tax-deductible status of environmental groups and non-government organisations that work to protect Australia’s unique and threatened ecosystems and natural capital.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Encourages the Commonwealth Government to commit to enforcing the <em style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012</em> that criminalises the importation into Australia of illegally logged timber and any product made from illegally logged timber, and the <em style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment Regulation 2013</em> that regulates compliance of the<em style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Act</em>. Any delay in enforcement of the <em style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Act </em>and the <em style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Regulation</em> will result in even greater deforestation of tropical and other forests and continued loss of species from these mega-diverse habitats in the Asia – Pacific region.</li>
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-78618485979924622122014-07-22T14:35:00.001+08:002014-07-22T14:43:30.589+08:00California Halts Injection of Fracking Waste, Warning It May Be Contaminating Aquifers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.467em; text-align: left;">"California officials have ordered an emergency shut-down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought-wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.467em; text-align: left;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.467em; text-align: left;">The EPA's report, commissioned from outside consultants, also said that California regulators routinely failed to adequately examine the geology around an injection well to ensure that fluids pumped into it would not leak underground and contaminate drinking water aquifers. The report found that state inspectors often allowed injection at pressures that exceeded the capabilities of the wells and thus risked cracking the surrounding rock and spreading contaminants. Several accidents in recent years in California involved injected waste or injected steam leaking back out of abandoned wells, or blowing out of the ground and creating sinkholes, including one 2011 incident that killed an oil worker. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.467em; text-align: left;">The exemptions and other failings, said Damon Nagami, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council in an email, are "especially disturbing" in a state that has been keenly aware of severe water constraints for more than a century and is now suffering from a crippling drought. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.467em; text-align: left;">"Our drinking water sources must be protected and preserved for the precious resources they are, not sacrificed as a garbage dump for the oil and gas industry." </span></span></div>
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-77346269410583909902014-07-20T04:17:00.000+08:002014-07-22T13:22:29.256+08:00"NO" to fracking on Yawuru country! BUT !!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Yawuru and Djugun people met to
vote on the matter regarding Buru Energy's threat to country with their
proposal to hydraulic fracture (Fraccing or Fracking) in Yawuru country
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Option 1 had 76 votes,<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Option 2 had 6 votes,<br /> And option 3 had 12 votes.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">That vote is not worth the paper it's written on.
Please take the time to read the "options" presented to
Yawuru. The one chosen by the majority was option 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">" <b><i>Yawuru does not agree to the 2014/2015
fracking at Yulleroo, but if Buru Energy goes ahead with fracking, Buru Energy
must agree to meet environmental, cultural, social and economic conditions set
by Yawuru.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This is a multipliable choice question, without
boxes for <i>none of the above</i> or the option of calling for a <i>Moratorium on
fracking in Yawuru Country. </i>This is not an agenda <i>but a Smoke &
Mirror Game</i>. Who devised this agenda, how were these three choices formulated and how many meetings have they had to
get this micro managed result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">No fracking in 2014 and no
fracking until it could be scientifically proved it is safe </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US">was
the last decision made by Yawuru. Why did Yawuru move from this position?
Were they pushed, hoodwinked by the science, dizzied by the <i>nice people</i> or convinced by the
corporate lies of the profiteers?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Who will formulate the so-called conditions,
monitor compliance or undertake enforcement and under what legislation could
they be applied. Will Yawuru release these conditions to the community
for our understanding <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Even the Department of Mines and Petroleum do not
have the legislative powers to enforce an Environmental Plan. It is a well-held
belief with the community that there is considerable amount of conflicts of
interest involved in this decision-making and meeting management processes
including share deals, backhanders and employment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Yawuru fought hard and long for their Native Title
for nearly two decades and were granted <b><i>exclusive procession. </i></b>So
what does exclusive procession mean? Does Yawuru intend to challenge the state
government and Buru Energy in the courts to obtain to right to veto unwanted
evasive extraction industries on their lands, given their exclusive procession
under Native Title.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">More importantly when will Mitsubishi's lackeys Buru
Energy- and the Yawuru provide open and transparent community
consultation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I hope the Broome community will not be treated
like we were by Woodside and the Department of State Development and be
excluded from the conversation. Because community issues a Social Licence to
Operate and community means just that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Shire of Broome and Yawuru have a Duty of Care
to the broader community and should be both open and transparent with their
decisions and plans in regards to Fracking and turning our community into a
service town for rapidly declining fossil fools industries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fling open the doors and windows and let fresh air,
knowledge, wisdom and the science into an all inclusive community debate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Broome Shire and Yawuru must shoulder
the responsibility and opening up community debate and consultation
because their decisions will have huge effects on Country and Community.
It will be unforgiveable should our community be dragged once again
through another fracking community soul destroying decadal. Do not
denied this community a voice, a choice or negate open honest debate because we
have the rights not to be taken down a road that leads clearly to a dead end
future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There have been many opportunities for Yawuru to
say no. Even more so because Buru first fracked in 2010 without any approvals
or consent. If Pat Dodson stood up and issued a media release stating that
Yawuru opposed fracking on their lands Buru Energy shares would plummet over
night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Buru has no legal obligations to adhere to any
conditions set by Yawuru. However Yawuru does have social, cultural and
spiritual obligations to all who live in their Country, who use the water and
breath the air. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com95tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-1731327818735922362014-07-19T09:31:00.001+08:002014-07-19T09:31:50.310+08:00Kimberley Aboriginal leaders call for a moratorium on fracking « Kred<a href="http://www.kred.org.au/kimberley-aboriginal-leaders-call-for-a-moratorium-on-fracking/">Kimberley Aboriginal leaders call for a moratorium on fracking « Kred</a><br /><br />
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<h1 style="background-color: white; color: #e14346; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 5px;">Kimberley Aboriginal leaders call for a moratorium on fracking</h1><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-top: 1em !important; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-960" height="200" src="http://www.kred.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Meeting-Attendees-Robert-Watson-and-Brendan-Charles-for-web--300x200.jpg" style="display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; width: auto;" title="Meeting Attendees Robert Watson and Brendan Charles for web" width="300" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-top: 1em !important; padding: 0px;">By Madelaine Dickie</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-top: 1em !important; padding: 0px;">Kimberley Aboriginal leaders have called for the WA State Government to put a moratorium on fracking until there are systems in place to ensure all Kimberley Traditional Owners have the relevant resources and information to make an informed decision about what happens on their country.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-top: 1em !important; padding: 0px;">The moratorium was discussed and voted on at a public meeting for Kimberley Traditional Owners at Yurmulun (Pandanus Park) Community, about 60 kilometres south of Derby.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-top: 1em !important; padding: 0px;">Around thirty Aboriginal people attended the open forum meeting.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-top: 1em !important; padding: 0px;">CEO of KRED Enterprises, Wayne Bergmann, says it is something that needs to be discussed collectively.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-top: 1em !important; padding: 0px;">“We’re concerned about the lack of information on the table about whether fracking can be done safely or not. Fracking will have a regional impact and if it can’t be done safely, it will affect all of us. We need companies in our backyard to step up and earn their social license to operate by ensuring all Aboriginal groups have the relevant information so we can make an informed decision.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-top: 1em !important; padding: 0px;">A plan of action was also agreed upon, with a bush meeting scheduled for late August where Traditional Owners will articulate a vision for how they would like to see development progress in the Kimberley.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-top: 1em !important; padding: 0px;">Mr Bergmann says it’s crucial local Aboriginal stakeholders have a say about the future of their region.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-top: 1em !important; padding: 0px;">“Part of this vision for development of the Kimberley, is about protecting our environmental and cultural values, while also ensuring our people can participate in sustainable economic development,” Mr Bergmann says.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em !important; margin-top: 1em !important; padding: 0px;">A large part of the Canning Superbasin was represented at the meeting with attendees travelling from Broome, Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing and Derby.</div>Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-85009183398637887202014-07-19T05:59:00.001+08:002014-07-19T05:59:49.708+08:00First Dog on the Moon on ... mourning the carbon tax - cartoon | Comment is free | theguardian.com<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-38344010625134941052014-07-17T14:22:00.001+08:002014-07-17T14:22:27.069+08:00History will condemn climate change denialists | Robert Manne | Comment is free | theguardian.com<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/16/history-will-condemn-climate-change-denialists">History will condemn climate change denialists | Robert Manne | Comment is free | theguardian.com</a><br /><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Ne_hz6C9z07Z7fjXBhR2JeFdo4Le6hn87fk0jrNbnXFCfobkfhI5p5n0wA74S99WiqRCPhgmbL01g21JbXC11048bgUj1wZevStWdFt-L_ymWuOvOALH2vXpGVDzcIsuyAyHqyD1Xnw/s1600/10559933_725744967460739_4638113349440759735_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Ne_hz6C9z07Z7fjXBhR2JeFdo4Le6hn87fk0jrNbnXFCfobkfhI5p5n0wA74S99WiqRCPhgmbL01g21JbXC11048bgUj1wZevStWdFt-L_ymWuOvOALH2vXpGVDzcIsuyAyHqyD1Xnw/s1600/10559933_725744967460739_4638113349440759735_n.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The right-wing denialists, now dominant within the Coalition, often call themselves conservatives. They are not. At the heart of true conservatism is the belief that each new generation forms the vital bridge between past and future, and is charged with the responsibility of passing the earth and its cultural treasures to their children and grandchildren in sound order. History will condemn the climate change denialists, here and elsewhere, for their contribution to the coming catastrophe that their cupidity, their arrogance, their myopia and their selfishness have bequeathed to the young and the generations still unborn.</span>Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-22877743311799743452014-07-16T07:13:00.002+08:002014-07-16T07:23:59.949+08:00WE HOLD THE ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0SrVTWlq_VEqolJM3DQF9JTty3CnCdue16hVKv3ituXubO3wfqy9d9kif08SLDyvqXgSH2GMObf1V1JN0-bFdHk5bT008WwO0kL_IWCGDNUksZSwYPdGk7pqSAiUt22Yl0i2X2bSorK8/s1600/Notice-of-18-July-GM-re-Yulleroo-updated-ID-39639_Page_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0SrVTWlq_VEqolJM3DQF9JTty3CnCdue16hVKv3ituXubO3wfqy9d9kif08SLDyvqXgSH2GMObf1V1JN0-bFdHk5bT008WwO0kL_IWCGDNUksZSwYPdGk7pqSAiUt22Yl0i2X2bSorK8/s1600/Notice-of-18-July-GM-re-Yulleroo-updated-ID-39639_Page_1.jpg" height="320" width="227" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This week, in the
Kimberley two Indigenous meetings will be held to talk about the ramifications
of the proposed fracking regime of the Canning Basin and their homelands.
Agendas are based around concerns regarding usage and misuse of their precious
surface & underground waters, effects to the environment, the interminable
admission of poisonous emissions and of course all the social implications on
socially anguished communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Indigenous people all over the world are
fighting resource extraction from their lands in order to fulfill their birth
obligations to protect and conserve for the following of births. The
depredations of fracking and government collusion with industry come as no
surprise to indigenous people or the Broome community—it is yet another form of
extractive colonialism laying waste to the land and water and sacrificing the
health of the people for short term economic gain of a very few. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Resistance to
fracking has been widespread and politically diverse. Fracking poses dire threats to universal
things we all need such as clean water and air, it naturally unifies people
when they stand up to fight it. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Importantly, local grassroots community
organising has formed the base of the anti-fracking movement across the nation
and now people in the Kimberley are turning their attentions to the proposed
industrialised gas fields on a massive scale across the Canning Basin and coal
mining in the Fitzroy Valley. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Basically, people of
all different social backgrounds who never considered themselves
activists are realizing that their water supply, their wilderness and their
communities are under threat. The community is talking to their neighbors, in
shopping centres, and at family and community gatherings. Quietly and surely
their resistance and their collective community power is being mustered against
these proposed distressing and nauseating fracking industry corporations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When the EPA and
other regulatory departments neglect their legislative obligations or uphold
even the basic of principles like Duty
of Care. When compliance and monitoring responsibilities are never undertaken
unless brought to their attention by concern persons, the media or questions in
parliament. When they: dismiss the public calls for help’ gainsay true
independent umpire, deny the damages of fracking operations and than declare
its safe is both unforgiveable and unbelievable. To place the control over
these operations into the hands of the Department of Mines and Petroleum is
placing the roasted chicken in the fox’s mouth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, what does
become clear to many people is that these departments and their fossil fool
corporate masters are deeply corrupted. People are radicalized as they start to
realise that these cozy arrangements benefit a few and are actually working
against their interests, dreams and future plans. <br />
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Resistance tactics have ranged from the passing of local shire or
community-wide bans on fracking, community science and monitoring, to sit-ins
at corrupt politicians’ offices and numerous blockades of drilling sites,
pipeline construction sites and wastewater injection facilities. Across Australian
grassroots resistance is playing an important role. Mainstream environmental
NGO’s have taken center stage in anti-fracking organising, focused largely on
seeking legislative moratoriums or bans. <br />
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While professional activist groups offer a wealth of valuable resources and
experience navigating environmental law, their larger organisational
imperatives and agendas can limit the vision of movements and lead to
compromises and decisions that aren't in the best interests of local
communities and in some cases even the ecosystems. It’s important that
community organisers be aware of organisational power dynamics when
collaborating with NGOs, so as to maintain local autonomy, emphasising <i>power from below</i> and direct involvement
of community members in decision making is vital. It’s a united community
power, their motivation, intent, networks, history and connection that carry successful
campaigns. <br />
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It doesn’t make any sense to focus on fracking as a single issue. Even if
fracking or oil drilling itself was totally banned, we know the more industry
will be back soon with a new and ever-more destructive form of resource
extraction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Clearly, for this
work to mean anything long-term, we have to be working towards much bigger
changes in our relationship to the land and how we meet our needs, and we have
to challenge the power structure that depends on the continuation of
ever-increasing plunder and exploitation. What’s exciting about the
anti-fracking movement is that it’s building grassroots community power and
waging that against industry and government corruption. The networks of
resistance we build now and the experiences we learn from will be crucial in
future struggles. <br />
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Conflict over fracking in the Kimberley and within all Australian’s major Water
Basins will undoubtedly be increasing in the years to come, as environmental
problems and water shortages grow ever more severe and people grow ever so Fed
Up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We can all clearly
see that these old fossil fools corporations have their foot firmly planted on
the accelerator in fear of their never ending decline in profit margins. These
injudicious mugs will not stop ransacking the land or poisoning all our water
until our resistance becomes powerful enough to make it unprofitable and
impossible for them to travel down their road map to destruction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We do not have to
look any further than the Pilbara to have insight into broken promises of
wealth, prosperity and employment for all. There are dead mining towns and all
their associated polluting rubbish all over this country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have total and
complete faith that Indigenous communities throughout the Kimberly will create
a historical united frontline of resistance to the extractive industries. Why,
because they will dare the brunt of the social, economic and environmental
impacts and all its associated harmful effects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Indigenous people are
taking it upon themselves to travel the dusty roads taking information and
films out to the people in order for them to be educated about fracking and the
tactics used by these corporations to divide and conquer. The mirror and beads
game no longer works. Many Traditional Owners, Elders and leaders from around
the Kimberley have been outspoken against and have and will continue to educate
their people and lobby hard against fracking. Free, Prior and Informed Consent Rights
are alive and kicking up lots of pindan dust directly into the faces of the
profiteers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leadership in
anti-fracking struggle has largely emerged from the powerful and deeply rooted
indigenous feeling of their true sovereignty, of keeping Country strong and the
water clean and flowing. Indigenous communities across the world have extensive
experience defending their lands, and many have firmly drawn the line against
fracking. It will be no different in the Kimberley. We’ll hold the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Australia,
Indigenous people have been fighting the extractive system for longer than
anyone else because they are the most impacted upon by its harmful
effects. It’s a settler colony based on
a colonial, extractive relationship with the land and a genocidal relationship
with indigenous people. The responsibility to confront the colonial system,
support indigenous self-determination and actually transform our relationships
with the land and indigenous people belongs to everyone living in the Australia:
if we don’t, we’re continuing to enact a legacy of genocide and we’re destined
to extinguish the life support systems of the planet. <br />
<br />
Solidarity isn’t just about feel-good charity or lending a helping hand, it’s
about building mutual partnerships that can sustain joint struggle and support
collective well-being in the long term. Solidarity grows from being strongly
rooted in your own struggle and recognising our deepest values and needs in the
struggles of others. Solidarity demands that we know ourselves and where we
stand. That entails things like learning our family/ancestral stories and the
history of the land we are living on, reflecting often on what is most
important to us and why, and locating ourselves and our complicities in the
larger structures of oppression. To live in solidarity with indigenous self-determination,
we must also be seeking self-determination ourselves. Together, we determine
the future; we issue the Social Licence to operate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pursuit of economic growth at all costs is not only destructive for
indigenous peoples but also for the rest of humanity and the planet. The focus
on GDP as a main measure of progress has distorted the true meaning of progress
and wellbeing. For example, damage to ecosystems, irreversible loss in
biological diversity and the erosion of cultural and linguistic diversity and
indigenous traditional knowledge are not factored into the balance sheet. Such
ecological, cultural, social and spiritual indicators, which provide more
comprehensive measurements of national and global situations, are seldom used.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The failure of the dominant development paradigm, as evidenced by the
lingering global economic crisis, the environmental crisis of climate change
and the erosion of biological diversity, signals the need to evolve alternative
ways of thinking about and pursuing development. Indigenous peoples’ visions
and perspectives of development provide some of these alternatives that should
be articulated and discussed further: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Development with culture and identity can be further strengthened
through genuine collaboration among indigenous peoples, academics, scientists and
NGOs. When pursued correctly, with trust being the biding collaboration is can
prove to be beneficial not only for empowering indigenous peoples and their cultures
but also for enriching and having a positive impact on the broader society and
environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be prepared to be disregarded
—remember the history. Keep showing up when support is requested, attend the
meetings and demonstrate your commitment to Country, Culture and Community. Seek
to build the networks, support and cohesion. WE HOLD THE GROUND. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-89782900297305551822014-07-14T14:19:00.001+08:002014-07-14T21:34:09.626+08:00Buru Energy running scared of community opposition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Buru Energy Limited (ASX:BRU) has
released an operations update outlining its appraisal activity and
tight gas pilot exploration program. However the project is behind
time as no work was able to commence until the approvals were confirmed
and the company is now running into more delays with the approaching wet
season. Buru has implemented a three phase program that is now expected
to deliver the results of its fracking by August 2015.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>August to October 2014</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wellsite preparation and civil works including the
construction of the water holding and flowback fluid retention ponds, flare
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underway at the Valhalla North site. These are major civil <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">works required to support the currently planned frac
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well conditioning to ensure the well bores contain an
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Conducting of “mini fracs” or Diagnostic Fracture
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equipment package and does not require the mobilisation of the full frac crew.
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Phase 2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">August 2014 to
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operations and logistics are optimised and all contracts are the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">most cost effective. The design of the fracs will also
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“mini fracs” or Diagnostic Fracture Injection Tests</span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">involves injecting fluid at increasing pressure until the rock begins to crack. The well is then sealed and the pressure monitored for a couple of weeks as the fluid leaks into the cracks. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the purpose of the mini-frac is to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“determine whether the formation is capable of being hydraulically fractured”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. Having already measured the gas content of the shale from the core sample last year, the mini-frac results would be a significant step towards shale gas extraction in the Canning Basin)</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">March to August
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<!--EndFragment--><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Buru also says
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proposed activities for the remainder of 2014. Shares in Buru Energy are trading 6.5 per cent lower at $0.94. </span><br />
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-34081527234760074012014-06-26T20:12:00.001+08:002014-06-26T20:12:16.367+08:00Wastewater well suspended after “frackquakes” rock Colorado - Salon.com<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/06/25/fracking_wastewater_well_suspended_after_earthquakes_rock_colorado/">Wastewater well suspended after “frackquakes” rock Colorado - Salon.com</a><br /><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The (literally) earth-shattering implications of fracking have officially hit Colorado, where officials <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/25/us-energy-colorado-earthquake-idUSKBN0F004320140625" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">suspended</a> a well <a href="http://www.usgs.gov/faq/?q=categories/9833/3426" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">used to dispose of wastewater</a> from oil and gas drilling after researchers linked it to seismic activity in the area.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">A 3.4 magnitude earthquake rocked the typically “<a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/colorado/history.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">aseismic</a>” Greeley on May 31, its epicenter about 2 miles from the wastewater injection site. But it was a second, <a href="http://www.coloradoindependent.com/147923/greeley-area-hit-by-second-earthquake-this-month" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2.6 magnitude quake</a> this past Monday, picked up by a team of researchers from the University of Colorado that had been monitoring the area, that convinced regulators to take action.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In a <a href="http://www.coloradoindependent.com/147934/colorado-drilling-regulators-halt-injection-well-activity-in-reaction-to-greeley-quake" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">statement</a>, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission explained that it ordered High Sierra Water Services, the well’s operator, to stop disposing wastewater for 20 days, “as a cautionary step.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">“In light of the findings of CU’s team, we think it’s important we review additional data, bring in additional expertise and closely review the history of injection at this site in order to more fully understand any potential link to seismicity and use of this disposal well,” said COGCC director Matt Lepore.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">A spokesperson for COGCC <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/25/us-energy-colorado-earthquake-idUSKBN0F004320140625" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">told Reuters</a> that this is believed to be the first time that wastewater injection has been tied to seismic activity in the state. But it’s not the first time Colorado’s experienced drilling-related quakes, as <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/24/frackquakes-colorado" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: red; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DeSmogBlog notes</a>:</div>Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-57703109554544192862014-06-26T10:10:00.001+08:002014-06-26T10:10:33.341+08:00Judge Rules Exxon Must Face Criminal Charges Over 50,000 Gallon Fracking Waste Spill | NationofChange<a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/judge-rules-exxon-must-face-criminal-charges-over-fracking-waste-spill-1388848488">Judge Rules Exxon Must Face Criminal Charges Over 50,000 Gallon Fracking Waste Spill | NationofChange</a><br /><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy will have to face criminal charges for allegedly dumping tens of thousands of gallons of hydraulic fracturing waste at a Marcellus Shale drilling site in 2010, according to a </span><a href="http://www.law360.com/environmental/articles/498343?nl_pk=6ec00142-1ec4-4c85-9bec-8933acf3bc85&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=environmental" style="background-color: white; color: #d13f29; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Pennsylvania judge’s ruling</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;"> on Thursday.</span>Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-40256693391688077332014-06-25T21:56:00.001+08:002014-06-26T10:05:24.723+08:00Kimberley traditional owners green light Buru Energy fracking - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Free, Prior, and Informed Consent! Buru's Bullshit - I would like to see the minutes of the meeting and who, how and when did this meeting take place. Was the Kimberley Land Council present? Were there any legal representatives looking after the best interests of the people?. We all know too well how these corporations, all over the world operate in indigenous communities. Unfortunately, we as a community have already experienced these types of corporate tricks and government lies. We know how to view these predicable propaganda of happy blackfellow snaps, we understand how these corporations operate, its a formula of lies and deceit of divide and conquer.</h6>
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-11291501397379011732014-06-24T19:32:00.001+08:002014-06-24T19:38:19.767+08:00Poll shows most oppose fracking - The West Australian<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/24292886/poll-shows-most-oppose-fracking/">Poll shows most oppose fracking - The West Australian</a><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;">What's more, only 7 per cent of
respondents strongly supported fracking, compared with 26 per cent who strongly
objected to it. The results were contained in polling conducted by East
Perth-based consultancy Research Solutions, which carried out the work on
behalf of the Department of Mines and Petroleum. The weighted sample for the
question was 237 respondents. It comes at a delicate time for the Government
amid increasing activity by onshore gas companies, which use fracking to unlock
unconventional gas resources.</span><br />
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fracking proposal by Buru Energy in the Kimberley. Buru wants to explore for
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stronger than the State average. The department's deputy director general
Michelle Andrews said the main finding of the research was that the community
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-6790019936565386002014-06-24T07:53:00.001+08:002014-06-24T07:53:54.649+08:00Hormone-disrupting activity of fracking chemicals worse than initially found | Science Codex<a href="http://www.sciencecodex.com/hormonedisrupting_activity_of_fracking_chemicals_worse_than_initially_found-136137">Hormone-disrupting activity of fracking chemicals worse than initially found | Science Codex</a><br /><br />
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<div style="background-color: #fcf3ec; color: #4b2b18; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 610px;">Many chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, can disrupt not only the human body's reproductive hormones but also the glucocorticoid and thyroid hormone receptors, which are necessary to maintain good health, a new study finds. The results were presented Monday at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and the Endocrine Society: ICE/ENDO 2014 in Chicago.</div><div style="background-color: #fcf3ec; color: #4b2b18; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 610px;">"Among the chemicals that the fracking industry has reported using most often, all 24 that we have tested block the activity of one or more important hormone receptors," said the study's presenting author, Christopher Kassotis, a PhD student at the University of Missouri, Columbia. "The high levels of hormone disruption by endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that we measured, have been associated with many poor health outcomes, such as infertility, cancer and birth defects."</div>Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-84583285606689105742014-06-24T07:21:00.000+08:002014-06-24T07:28:44.949+08:00“Stolen Heritage Generation’’ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NEW heritage laws in Western Australia will lead to a “Stolen Heritage Generation’’ and deliver the fate of thousands of indigenous sites into the hands of a single bureaucrat.</span></strong></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are among a tide of criticisms aimed at proposed changes to the WA Aboriginal Heritage Act released for comment.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If passed, the changes would streamline approval processes for miners, but also increase penalties for destruction of sites and extend the period during which offenders can be prosecuted from one to five years.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aboriginal Affairs Minister Peter Collier said the recent pace of economic development in the mining and construction sectors had highlighted inefficiencies in the laws. The department identified a backlog of 6000 unassessed heritage sites, which resource companies argue is causing costly delays in getting approval to develop mines.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mining lobby group AMEC welcomed the changes, saying they would increase clarity and certainty for all stakeholders. “AMEC is keen to see early passage of the amendments through parliament and will continue to work with government,” said chief executive Simon Bennison. But native title representative groups and anthropologists say the proposed changes to Australia’s first set of laws covering Aboriginal sacred sites will concentrate power in the hands of a single bureaucrat, the chief executive of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The role of the Aboriginal Cultural Material Committee, which assesses applications to disturb or destroy sites, will be downgraded and the chief executive will assume powers to issue and expedite permits for development where that activity will not, in his opinion, disturb registered sites.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr Collier said the system “will mean decision-making will occur on an ongoing basis without relying on the system of monthly (ACMC) meetings”. The new system will also allow developers to transfer a permit to disturb a site to a new purchaser, replacing arrangements requiring a review if site ownership changes hands.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simon Hawkins, from the Pilbara-based Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation, was alarmed that decision-making powers would be concentrated in a single entity. “One person, not necessarily with any relevant expertise or experience in cultural heritage management, will have the discretion to protect or destroy Aboriginal heritage sites and objects.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said Aboriginal people continued to be denied any power to appeal a decision affecting their heritage, with no change to rules that permit only development proponents to appeal to the State Administrative Tribunal. “The WA government had wasted a unique opportunity to address the deep inequities in the Aboriginal heritage protection regime.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aboriginal heritage sites include the Burrup Peninsula, the world’s largest rock art site, ancient ochre pits and shell middens.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Former WA Museum curator and archaeologist Kate Morse said the loss of prehistoric objects and sites of significance was at stake. “It’ll become the Stolen Heritage Generation if we don’t look out. This is part of our heritage that is being lost and nobody will ever know (the sites) where Aboriginal people lived,” Dr Morse said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fiona Hook, president of the Australian Archaeological Association, said she would be seeking input from international heritage bodies. “There is now no way for Aboriginal people to be involved in the process and it removes expertise from the ACMC. Yet it should be going in the other direction.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She said new definitions requiring a higher threshold of significance for a site to be registered would see smaller sites destroyed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">he Western Australian Minister for <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> Affairs, Hon Peter Collier, released the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong><strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Heritage</strong> Amendment Bill 2014 </em>(WA) (<strong>the Bill</strong>). The Bill proposes a number of amendments to the current<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Heritage</strong> <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Act</strong> 1972</em> (WA) (<strong><strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Act</strong></strong>) and the Department of <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> Affairs (<strong>DAA</strong>) is accepting written submissions on the changes until 5pm on 6 August 2014. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">The Bill responds to industry concern about delays in the administration of the current <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Act</strong>. The basic idea of the amendments is to lessen the timeframes associated with that administration and increase penalties for offences under the <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Act</strong>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"></span><br />
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<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3e3d40; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Providing that the CEO will evaluate, on behalf of the community, the significance or otherwise of<strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> sites and places;</span></li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3e3d40; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Engagement with the <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> cultural Committee only if the CEO requests it;</span></li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3e3d40; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The making of declarations about the non-existence of sites on land;</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Section 18 permits</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Similar to the current regime, a section 18 permit is required to use the land in circumstances which would normally breach the <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Act</strong>. The CEO’s evaluation of sites and places is likely to cause significant concern in the <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> community and may create delays in the introduction of these amendments.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Currently, only the land owner can lodge a section 18 application; conversely, the Bill drafting allows anyone<sup>1</sup> to make the application.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Bill also provides for the permits to be transferred between different land users, where their activities are within the scope of the permit.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Streamlining</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Under the Bill all section 18 applications will be considered by the Chief Executive Officer (<strong>CEO</strong>) of the DAA. The Committee no longer has an “as of right” involvement in the assessment of applications.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Bill provides that where the CEO considers that:</span></span></div>
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<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3e3d40; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there are no <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> Sites on the land, it may issue a declaration (new process);</span></li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3e3d40; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there are <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> Sites on the land, but such sites will not be adversely affected by the proposed activities, it may issue permit (new process); or</span></li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3e3d40; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there are <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> Sites on the land and such sites may be adversely affected by the proposed activities, the application must be referred to the <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> Cultural Material Committee to assess and the Minister to grant or refuse (maintains status quo).</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new register of declarations and permits is proposed by the Bill to assist with enforcing breaches.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Heritage</strong> surveys and land access</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Bill does not require <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">heritage</strong> surveys and consultations with traditional owners to occur. Although, it will be easier to obtain a CEO declaration that there are no sites if such steps have been undertaken by the proponent.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obtaining a section 18 permit or a CEO declaration does not give a proponent permission to access the land. Access will need to be obtained through other processes such as the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Native Title <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Act</strong> 1993 </em>(Cth).</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> Sites evaluation and registration</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Bill looks to introduce new regulations which include a consistent assessment criteria and process for evaluating a site or object. If an <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> Site or Object is identified, the Bill requires more detailed information to be registered about the nature and location of a site.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The CEO will be the main entity assessing the sites, objects and areas.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To encourage sites to be registered and trust between the DAA and traditional owners, the Bill provides that the defendant in any prosecution for damage of a site will have to prove that the area is not a site on the balance of probabilities.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Stronger compliance regime</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3d40; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you damage an <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> Site or Object, the Bill provides for:</span></span></div>
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<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3e3d40; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">significantly higher penalties (aligned to the Queensland and Victoria <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">Aboriginal</strong> <strong class="highlight" style="color: #c10000;">heritage</strong> legislation, for example: $500,000 for a body corporate first offence, up from $50,000); and</span></li>
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-42752645553682475372014-06-18T20:56:00.001+08:002014-06-18T20:56:42.555+08:00Miner Northern Minerals strikes Browns Range deal with traditional owners - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-17/northern-minerals-strikes-browns-range-mine-deal/5529502">Miner Northern Minerals strikes Browns Range deal with traditional owners - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)</a><br /><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Buru Energy and Mitsubishi have a Google researched template about how to deal with Broome and the Kimberley Indigenous communities who oppose their fracking plans for the Canning Basin, in the Kimberley. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">To beat us </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium; text-indent: -18pt;"> To divide us</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">To convince us (or the kids in schools)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">To pretend they are listening/care!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">To make concerned community members exclude themselves from Buru’s process (road map)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">To lure in collaboration</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">To get us to abandon the issue</span></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">This is never going to happen given Broome’s recent history. We are so much wiser now with our Woodside abrasions that Buru Energy’s weekly half page ads in the local paper are heedless in their efforts to convince anyone. On the contrary, these ads just scream “BURU BULLSHIT” to the readers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Buru’s clinical template to undermine our community will not work. Woodside also made the very same mistake, they underestimated our community’s tenacity and our "<i>never ever give up</i>” aptitudes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">In communities across the world, people are standing up to the fracking industry, passing bans and limits on fracking and defending their right to do so in court. When the gas industry tries to bully communities into backing down or shutting up, communities are fighting back—and winning.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">Buru’s bullshiters and their cohorts may wish it were otherwise, but communities have the right to determine what types of development and land use is appropriate within their area. They issue the Social Licence to operate. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;">The Broome community has clearly shown that they are firmly committed to defending that right.</span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1403009137554_2323" style="color: #545454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The West Australian government has decided to allow <b>Buru</b> Energy to frack for gas in the Kimberley region without an Environmental Protection ..</span></div>
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The West Australian government has decided to allow Buru Energy to frack for gas in the Kimberley region without an Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) assessment.</div>
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The Perth-based company plans to test tight gas flows using hydraulic fracturing stimulation at four existing wells along its Laurel Formation prospect in the second half of 2014.</div>
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The EPA told the company in January that the proposal raised several environmental issues but it had decided against subjecting it to an impact assessment process.<b style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></div>
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"The EPA considers that this small scale, ‘proof of concept' exploration drilling proposal is unlikely to have a significant effect on the environment," it said.<b style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></div>
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Potential impacts such as vegetation clearing and pollution of groundwater due to well failure could be monitored and mitigated by the Department of Mines and Petroleum and the Department of Water, the EPA said.<b style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></div>
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On Tuesday, the WA environment minister, Albert Jacobs, said the EPA's decision was justified and dismissed 48 appeals.<b style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></div>
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Conservation groups were outraged and renewed their call for a moratorium on gas fracking in WA.<b style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></div>
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"This is WA's largest ever fracking proposal by a long shot, and for it to have no scrutiny by WA's only independent environmental watchdog is appalling," Environs Kimberley director Martin Pritchard said.<b style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></b></div>
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"While the government claims that gas fracking has been done safely in WA for decades, they fail to say that modern day fracking is completely different, with much higher risks for the environment, groundwater and public health."</div>
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-38688591599868055162014-06-13T21:06:00.001+08:002014-06-13T21:06:41.379+08:00Comment: Abbott lacks broad vision for Northern Australia | SBS News<a href="http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/06/13/comment-abbott-lacks-broad-vision-northern-australia">Comment: Abbott lacks broad vision for Northern Australia | SBS News</a><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1b2024; font-family: HelveticaNeue-55-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">The federal Government’s </span><a href="http://northernaustralia.dpmc.gov.au/" style="border: 0px; color: #006ec8; font-family: HelveticaNeue-55-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.538em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Green Paper on Developing Northern Australia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1b2024; font-family: HelveticaNeue-55-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">, released this week, is a mixture of grandiose plans for a new foodbowl unsupported by scientific evidence, some useful policy drivers for building a more resilient economy in the north, and some glaring blind spots.</span><br /><br />
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1b2024; font-family: HelveticaNeue-55-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;">Usefully, the green paper acknowledges up front that northern Australia’s unique environmental assets are found no-where else on earth and support a multi-billion dollar tourism industry. In fact recent Tourism Australia research on international visitors reinforces this point finding that Australia is ranked the world’s number one destination for world class beauty and natural environment. So what are we talking about?</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #1b2024; font-family: HelveticaNeue-55-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: HelveticaNeue-75-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">"The big blind spot in the Green Paper is a lack of attention to valuing and investing in environmental services and building an economy up north that keeps these stunning landscapes and rivers in good health."</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1b2024; font-family: HelveticaNeue-55-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;">Stretching over 2,500 kilometres from the Kimberley in the west, through Kakadu in the Northern Territory and the Gulf of Carpentaria, to Cape York Peninsula in the east, northern Australia is home to some of the most ecologically intact natural landscapes left on the planet fringed by World Heritage listed reefs. These landscapes form a sweep of forests, savannah woodlands and spinifex clad ranges, threaded by a mosaic of wetlands with meandering pristine rivers. They are world renowned for their natural and cultural values and support thousands of livelihoods in land and sea management, particularly in rural and remote Indigenous communities.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1b2024; font-family: HelveticaNeue-55-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;">The big blind spot in the Green Paper is a lack of attention to valuing and investing in environmental services and building an economy up north that keeps these stunning landscapes and rivers in good health. These regions are worth our strongest efforts to protect and conserve it in line with the aspirations of Indigenous peoples who have been its custodians for tens of thousands of years.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1b2024; font-family: HelveticaNeue-55-Roman, Helvetica, Arial, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px;">Another blind spot is the focus on expanding fossil fuel energy development, mainly coal and gas, while playing lip service to a resource that the north has in abundance - sunshine! Australia could become a world leader in the deployment of renewable energy to power rural and remote communities, increasing their self reliance.</div><br />Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-40567024846769715072014-06-13T20:47:00.001+08:002014-06-13T20:56:38.589+08:00New planning strategy to guide Dampier Peninsula development - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The peninsula is home to nearly 3,000 residents in several Aboriginal communities.</div>
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The commission says the lack of a coordinated planning framework is hampering efforts to effectively deliver additional housing services to the communities.</div>
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Commission chairman Eric Lumsden says it is important the public understands what the new draft planning strategy is about.</div>
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"It'll allow us to manage not only a growing population but also very significant economic development potential and tourism opportunities in that area but we need to do it in a balanced way that protects the area's valuable cultural and environmental heritage," he said.</div>
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He says it is hoped this strategy will provide better guidance for decisions.</div>
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"A strategy which will enable a balanced approach to address these issues with broad community outcomes without having decisions made in a very isolated framework which can then generate other issues which then need to be readdressed down the track," he said.<br />
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The Western Australian Planning Commission has released a draft Strategy to guide land use and development on the Dampier Peninsula, for public comment.</span><div style="color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.75em; padding: 10px 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">
The draft Dampier Peninsula Planning Strategy provides a comprehensive land use plan that integrates the important cultural, economic and environmental characteristics of the Peninsula whilst respecting procedural rights under the <i>Native Title Act 1993. </i></div>
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The draft strategy is a significant initiative to manage the area’s growing population, economic development potential and tourism opportunities while respecting its valuable cultural and environmental heritage. It complements the draft Shire of Broome Local Planning Strategy by seeking to manage growth in the region, by promoting compact settlement and consolidating growth in areas where key services and infrastructure are already established.</div>
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The strategy will enhance the amenity of residents, provide a range of tourism and recreational opportunities for visitors, allow for sustainable economic growth in such areas as agriculture and aquaculture and protect the land’s cultural, heritage and natural resources values.</div>
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Submissions close 5pm, Monday 1 September 2014.</div>
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-50889873953538210912014-05-31T07:54:00.002+08:002014-05-31T07:56:51.910+08:00The corporate mindset<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Australian Filmmaker John Nikolakopoulos was trying to tap “<a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2014/04/23/is-satire-a-useful-tool-for-climate-change-communications-and-some-f-bombing/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">directly into the corporate mindset</a>” when he made this parody promotional video for a fake coal company’s new climate change public relations strategy. If you don’t like f-bombs, head for cover now.</span><br />
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Red Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.com54tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-43302514070606975692014-05-30T10:42:00.006+08:002014-05-30T19:43:14.998+08:00DMP Claim Confidentiality Over Fracking Environmental Regulations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: red;"><span data-reactid=".1r.1:3:1:$comment798423550197414_798425806863855:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span data-reactid=".1r.1:3:1:$comment798423550197414_798425806863855:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">Fracking for ancient fossil energy ... is so dangerous in the long term ... every well uses millions of litres of fresh water ... the waste is radioactive and toxic ... and in a country like Australia, where fresh water is one of the most important res</span></span><span data-reactid=".1r.1:3:1:$comment798423550197414_798425806863855:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span data-reactid=".1r.1:3:1:$comment798423550197414_798425806863855:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".1r.1:3:1:$comment798423550197414_798425806863855:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">ources, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, that mega money is invested in this method ... it is far better that our leaders take us forward into a self-sustainable renewable energy future, than going for the short term monotary gain, that only leaves us with a long term pollution problem, that cannot be fixed by any kind of clean up known to man. When our soils, water and air is poisoned, we is poisoned ...</span></span></span></span><br />
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Mr Chapple said he was particularly concerned about contaminated water leaks from lined dams at several of Buru Energy Limited’s Yulleroo wells in February this year, but had been unable to gain access to the relevant environmental information from the Department of Mines and Petroleum.</div>
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“I’m absolutely astounded by the lack of transparency here,” he said.</div>
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“To the best of my knowledge, it’s the first time in history that environmental regulations have been commercial-in-confidence.</div>
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“We don’t know the environmental requirements of Buru Energy with regards to this site, nor are we allowed to access them so how can we possibly hold them accountable for any environmental breaches that may or may not have happened.</div>
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“The Fracking industry is being managed by a set of rules and regulations without public oversight.”</div>
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Mr Chapple said the Department of Mines and Petroleum had refused to acknowledge the leakages in February this year despite him having provided photographic evidence.</div>
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“They don’t want to have to deal with this issue,” he said.</div>
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“Modifications to the Yulleroo wells were made in May last year after a similar overtopping incident occurred.</div>
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“These modifications were supposed to prevent any further leakages; they haven’t.</div>
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“The DMP haven’t even inspected the site nor have they notified the Environmental Protection Authority or the Department of Environmental Regulation.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg661P5OkhUji_i_vGkYd6T3N72TtjySMcfaL1Cn3_UYT76iczK6d9LWy1m4x2AX_oOm2RAYs7xMsDPKBN9TgUnODDtxLQoJ4pLReTkYSkNAFumwn8pGsf_tcNxIUMAurENN5PmS5Q9WY/s1600/IMG_0823_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg661P5OkhUji_i_vGkYd6T3N72TtjySMcfaL1Cn3_UYT76iczK6d9LWy1m4x2AX_oOm2RAYs7xMsDPKBN9TgUnODDtxLQoJ4pLReTkYSkNAFumwn8pGsf_tcNxIUMAurENN5PmS5Q9WY/s1600/IMG_0823_0.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a>Mr Chapple said it was even more alarming that the Department of Water weren’t notified of any water leakages from Buru’s Yulleroo sites as, according to the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources Act 1967, jurisdiction for this matter remained solely with the Department of Mines and Petroleum.</div>
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In response to questions in parliament a spokesperson for the Minister for Environment stated the Buru proposal was a small scale, “proof of concept” project unlikely to have a significant effect on the environment and would therefore be handled by the Department of Mines and Petroleum.<br />
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