Tasmanian Times
Environment
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Virtual water
Jon Sumby ALMOST fifteen years ago I went to a major international water conference and had a lot of interesting conversations with...
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957The speech I was not allowed to deliver to the RPDC
Barnaby Drake I managed to get through the first three paragraphs before I was interrupted by the chairman and told that what...
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Meeting the RFA without woodchipping is easy
Pete Godfrey We who have the audacity to question the politicians or forest masters are told constantly that they have to pillage...
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Past Tense Peter Garrett
Jo McRae I note that Peter Garrett confirms means testing the solar panel rebate as “the right decision, given that the program...
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Brown loses logging battle
Michael Stedman Mercury TASMANIAN Greens senator Bob Brown has lost his two-year fight to prevent logging in the Wielangta Forest. Forestry Tasmania...
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ANZ to decline Gunns funding
Business Spectator Banking sources say ANZ will not provide funding to timber group Gunns Ltd for its controversial Tasmanian pulp mill project,...
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A Hart for Gunns?
Lindsay Tuffin IS Gunns is doing a deal with Graeme Hart for the pulp mill and Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon has gone...
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Endocrine disrupting chemicals in our drinking water
Dr Alison Bleaney Since 2005, atrazine has been found in the Duck River, the Jordan River, the Rubicon River, the Liffey River,...
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Who should control our vital resources?
Mike Bolan In Tasmania the state government appears highly skilled at avoiding accountability, via secrecy, failing to answer legitimate queries and misleading...
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Gaian Apocalypse
Jon Ayling ‘So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on...
