… says Premier and Minister for Reconstruction Anna Bligh. 29/07/2011 – Anna Bligh said containing the Hendra virus is too important to allow political manoeuvring to influence the Government’s position; she said ‘there is a lot that we do not know about the Hendra disease but all the evidence we have points to the risk [...]
Entries Tagged as 'pollution'
“We Will Not Experiment With Peoples’ Lives”
July 29th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: animals · energy · pollution
The Great Artesian Basin Polluted by Fracking for CSG?
July 25th, 2011 · No Comments
No worries says the ‘Honourable’ Rachel Nolan Qld Labor ‘Natural Resources’ and The Arts minister, we have a new rig to help secure water supply in Queensland; a new state of the art drilling rig will help with the search for new water supplies throughout Queensland (after allowing companies to contaminate million year old water [...]
Bullshit Peddlers aka BP attempts to control research into impact of Gulf oil spill …
April 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment
BP officials tried to take control of a $500m fund pledged by the oil company for independent research into the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, it has emerged. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show BP officials openly discussing how to influence the work of scientists supported by the fund, [...]
Tags: corporations · environment · north america · pollution · usa
China Springs an Oil Leak
August 19th, 2010 · No Comments
Chinese officials have warned of a severe threat to wildlife from one of the country’s worst reported oil spills as an army of volunteers was dispatched to beaches to try to head off the black tides. At least one man has drowned in crude during the clean-up operation, which has expanded as the area of [...]
Tags: china · environment · oil · pollution
Oil Shortage in America? They’re Awash in It
July 30th, 2010 · No Comments
The global financial crisis – created by the USA – has pretty much bankrupted all the States, causing massive job losses in public works sector and the like; also, long ignored aging infrastructure is starting to collapse; however, emergency workers have all but been laid off, so when a natural or man-made / caused catastrophe [...]
Tags: corporations · environment · pollution · usa
