Wed Jan 30, 2008
Blue Wedges win delays dredging
The Blue Wedges Coalition has won a reprieve in the Federal Court that could delay the controversial dredging plan until February 20.
A lawyer for the Port of Melbourne said the delay, which comes days before the billion-dollar project is set to begin, could cost it up to $5 million.
The anti-dredging group, which opposes the Port Phillip channel deepening project, won the right to challenge federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett's decision to approve the project.
Justice Tony North set down a hearing date of February 20 to consider the group's challenge.
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Don't dredge the Yarra
A MAJOR shipping company has called for the Port Phillip channel deepening project to be scaled back, saying the controversial plan to dredge toxic sediment from the Yarra River can be avoided.
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Mon Jan 21, 2008
Scientists query channel deepening
SENIOR scientists have questioned the environmental safety of the $1 billion channel deepening project, arguing that the testing of the impact of dredging toxic sediment from the mouth of the Yarra River has been inadequate.
Despite the project being endorsed by the CSIRO, the senior scientists claim the Port of Melbourne Corporation has failed to answer key questions about the potential effects of shifting sediment containing 150 years of heavy metal and pesticide pollution to a disposal zone in the middle of Port Phillip Bay.
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Tue Jan 15, 2008
Bay dredge gets go-ahead
The controversial plan to deepen Melbourne's shipping channels will go ahead after the opponents of the project lost a legal challenge in the Federal Court.
Justice Peter Heerey dismissed an application by opponents Blue Wedges to overturn Environment Minister Peter Garrett's decision to approve the project.
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Tue Jan 08, 2008
What the world eats
You can see the slideshow at Time.com. It’s an astonishing comparison of our food habits, economies and cultural differences and similarities.
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Mon Jan 07, 2008
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Tue Jan 01, 2008
Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet
The Australian Government has announced that they will be joining China as one of the few countries globally that broadly censor the internet.
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Sun Dec 23, 2007
Boycott all Japanese consumer products
Maybe the world should stop buying Japanese products, till they get the message. I'm sure nothing would hurt them more than declining revenues. Or would we rather see dead whales than go without the new Toyota, or the latest plasma. Show the world you care vote with your wallet. Boycott all Japanese consumer products
Greenpeace
JAPAN'S cave-in on its plan to kill 50 humpback whales in the Southern Ocean this summer was not a breakthrough because whalers would continue to hunt the even more endangered fin whale, protesters said yesterday.
Japanese whale hunters will go ahead and kill 50 fin whales, even though they are officially endangered species and a moratorium on hunting them is imposed by the International Whaling Commission.
The fin whale is the second largest animal on the planet, growing up to 26 metres in length. They were hunted to the edge of extinction until the 1960s. Even now their numbers are unclear but could be as low as 5000 in the Southern Ocean.
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Sat Dec 15, 2007
Green Beer and Wine
You may have already considered serving locally produced, organic foods to your holiday guests, but what about the beer and wine? Significant amounts of water and fossil fuels are used to grow conventional grapes, barley, and hops, and to transport the finished products to market, but a growing number of beer and wine makers have made a commitment to produce beverages with the same (or better) quality as conventional products and with less environmental impact.
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Fri Dec 14, 2007
Joy flight ends in disaster
FOUR people on a birthday joy flight miraculously walked away from the wreckage of a light plane that crashed during an emergency landing on the Mornington Peninsula yesterday.
The pilot and three passengers were pulled from the extensively damaged single-engine plane after efforts to land on a golf course were unsuccessful and it came to rest instead on a busy Sorrento street about 2.30pm.
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