opinion
Also in this
section:
Editorial,
Unifying the opposition and Biden vs. Palin
Sirias, The
vision that lived on
Endara
Hill, The powers that be in Wonderland
Thompson,
The first VP candidate since Teddy Roosevelt who can field dress a moose
Clinton,
Time to take back the country we love
Pilgrim,
Issues vs. perceptions in the US elections
Weisbrot,
Labor law reform riding on the November election results
Setrini,
Stiglitz has the right idea and Friedman had the wrong one
Human
Rights Watch, Mexico City's abortion legalization upheld
Reporters
Without Borders, Online journalist slain in Russian police custody
Committee
to Protect Journalists, More attacks on journalists in Russia's Muslim
regions
Abeyta,
The case for extraditing Goni and his accomplice
Greenpeace,
Australia's Great Barrier Reef saved from oil shale extraction
Elzufon,
Martín's velvet coup
Jackson,
Government and its owners lash out at media they don't control
Leis,
Citizens' democracy
Bernal,
Abuse of authority
Letters
to the editor
Great
Barrier Reef saved
from
shale oil exploitation
by
Greenpeace International
It's
a victory for the Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef, with
a 20-year moratorium on all new shale oil projects in the region. Led
by the Save Our Foreshore group, the success shows just how powerful
local, grassroots campaigns can be.
The
ban has been welcomed by just about everyone but the Queensland
Resource Council, whose proposal was set to mine millions of tonnes
of shale rock each year on a site just 10 km from the gateway to the
Great Barrier Reef. The shale oil mine threatened to drain precious
water supplies, and to risk toxic leaching and air pollution from
waste rock. Shale oil production is extremely greenhouse gas
intensive --- emissions from this project, combined with the
company's other planned operations, would have raised Australia's
current total emissions by 30 percent within 20 years.
This
is a great win but it is madness that such a project could have even
been considered. We are facing catastrophic climate change --- we
must urgently cut emissions, not increase them. We don't need to
endanger the Great Barrier Reef or anywhere else by mining fossil
fuels. There
are better energy sources
that are ready to go right now. If Queensland Premier Anna Bligh can
block this proposal for climate reasons, we look forward to her
blocking other major fossil fuel projects in the state, including
export coal expansions, for the same reasons.
Greenpeace
joined Save
Our Foreshore
in their fight against the shale oil mine last month when the Esperanza
sailed into Airlie Beach
flanked by a flotilla of 90 local vessels as part of its six-week energy
[r]evolution tour.
Also in this
section:
Editorial,
Unifying the opposition and Biden vs. Palin
Sirias, The
vision that lived on
Endara
Hill, The powers that be in Wonderland
Thompson,
The first VP candidate since Teddy Roosevelt who can field dress a moose
Clinton,
Time to take back the country we love
Pilgrim,
Issues vs. perceptions in the US elections
Weisbrot,
Labor law reform riding on the November election results
Setrini,
Stiglitz has the right idea and Friedman had the wrong one
Human
Rights Watch, Mexico City's abortion legalization upheld
Reporters
Without Borders, Online journalist slain in Russian police custody
Committee
to Protect Journalists, More attacks on journalists in Russia's Muslim
regions
Abeyta,
The case for extraditing Goni and his accomplice
Greenpeace,
Australia's Great Barrier Reef saved from oil shale extraction
Elzufon,
Martín's velvet coup
Jackson,
Government and its owners lash out at media they don't control
Leis,
Citizens' democracy
Bernal,
Abuse of authority
Letters
to the editor
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