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This Time magazine article about dioxin pollution still killing people in Vietnam forty years after the war. At the time it was claimed to be harmless, and supporters of Gunns’ proposed pulp mill would have us believe dioxins (which would be released on a daily basis in effluent/emissions) are really rather benign. I don’t think so . . . .

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948084,00.html

If this can happen to a pipeline in Alaska, then it could happen to pipeline(s) being proposed for Tasmania.
http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/prudhoe/story/1063296.html

This is inevitably occurring in Tasmania . . .
http://www.poststar.com/news/local/article_98ea52a4-ed21-11de-8445-001cc4c03286.html

Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. -Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200912/r487190_2510865.asx

Great piece from Connor Duffy at the 7:30 report on the role of forests in climate change.

Let’s hope the campaign to save Tassie’s forests doesn’t descend to this level.

http://www.13point7billion.org/2009/12/still-fighting-chiles-mapuche.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

How likely is it the country (or the world) will wage war over water?

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/12/23/23greenwire-future-scarcity-seen-sparking-local-conflicts-62509.html

Fancy a drink of water? The bottled variety might not be as good as the blurb on the bottle suggests . . .

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49811

Now where have I heard this story before? Could it be Tasmania . . . ?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121565792

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49811

When eating fish might not be such a great idea . . .

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/safe-mercury-levels-from-fish-pose-risk-to-heart/

Can we please re-write Tasmania’s logging rule to balance our water, wildlife with timber needs . . . ?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010536270_aporloggingrule1stldwritethru.html

We aren’t the only ones critical of plantations & I can only agree with this comment: “Plantations are not forests. They do not give life, they take it away from you. . How can we (indigenous peoples) be in favor of this?”
http://invw.org/2009/12/un-timber-deal-would-ok-%E2%80%9Ca-new-form-of-colonialism-critics-charge/

Is this what northern Tasmanians can look forward to should a certain timber company build its despised pulp mill. . . ?

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=dec1909/at05

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. – Helen Adams Keller, lecturer and author (1880-1968)