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Tweet Baillieu’s ‘let er rip’ approach to the environment could spell R.I.P. for his beleaguered Government, writes environment editor Sandi Keane. ON FRIDAY, Victoria’s Baillieu Government lost its appeal in the Federal Court to overturn...
Tweet Energy giant Santos’ quest to win the hearts and minds of NSW farming communities about coal seam gas has backfired after one of its TV ads has been exposed as a con, writes environment editor Sandi Keane. NOTE: Santos appears to have...
Tweet Ethical Australian timber company Simmonds Lumber is using scientific innovation to helping stamp out illegal logging. Environment editor Sandi Keane reports. Australian timber company, Simmonds Lumber Group, has taken the lead in helping...
Tweet What is being portrayed as charity is nothing more than a cynical neo-colonial raid by the G8 to control African commodities, land and seeds, writes Glenn Ashton. An anti-Monsanto crop circle made by farmers and volunteers in the Philippines....
Tweet Germany is one of the leading coffee exporting countries in the world, without having a single coffee bush. Countries like Germany buy raw coffee beans from developing countries and make profit out of processing and re-exporting the brown...
Tweet When scientists and politicians talk about climate change they almost always refer to “clean energy” — Denise Allen suggests we now start talking about “clean crops”. The Labor Government’s policy of pricing carbon is the cheapest...
Tweet Current safeguards around CSG extraction are inadequate, says Jennifer Elliott — and contamination of drinking and irrigation water has already occurred in NSW and Queensland. Environmental degradation at an unfinished CSG well near...
Tweet Legal loopholes mean you could be, and probably are, inadvertently buying meat coming from animals that were fully conscious when they were slaughtered. Environment editor Sandi Keane reports. Loopholes in the law mean that Australian...
Tweet In a shocking demonstration of non-compliance with regulations, 478 cattle and sheep suffered and died last year on a horror 36 day voyage to Turkey. Suzanne Cass reports. Live exports from Feb 2004 (photo courtesy of Animals’...
Tweet A new alliance of ten community groups looks to challenge the Victorian Baillieu Government’s new free-for-all approach to brown coal mining and CSG extraction in this previously pristine area. Environment editor Sandi Keane reports. As...
