Tasmanian Times
Environment
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725Time running out for the Tarkine: Emergency Heritage Listing vital
The Greens will (today) move in the Senate to call on the Minister for the Environment to immediately include the Tarkine on...
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Answers needed on FT’s publicly-subsidised plantations
The Tasmanian Greens today (Mon) reiterated their call for the Forestry Minister Bryan Green MP to detail the extent of the publicly-subsidised...
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Wilkie wins fairer deal for miners and will support MRRT
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, will support the MRRT after securing a better deal for small miners. “Although I would...
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Forget NIMBY—the new battle cry is ‘Not On Our Planet’
My very favorite piece of punditry about the Keystone XL pipeline appeared the day after President Obama sent it back for more...
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Crying ‘Fox’ too often…
Tell a story often enough and people begin to believe it. In June 2002 David Llewellyn resurrected a conspiracy theory covered by...
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Looking forward to a smoking ban on the route of the Tour De France?
The unremarked passage of the Tasmanian Public Health Amendment Bill 2011. This week was a noteworthy one for reform of tobacco regulation...
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Thousands Urge EPA to Discount Flawed Science on Syngenta’s Atrazine
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 14 – As EPA reconsiders the science on atrazine, new findings highlight the link between low-level exposure to the nation’s most...
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Special timbers sector endangered by Tas Forestry IGA. Petition
Stakeholders of Tasmania’s valuable special timbers sector who are unhappy with the industry-destroying Tasmanian forestry Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) have the backing of...
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Mine plan prompts new Emergency National Heritage bid for Tarkine
In response to the Venture Minerals’ Mount Lindsay open cut mine proposal inside the Meredith Ranges Regional Reserve, the Tarkine National Coalition...
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Tarkine: State must act
Picture: Nicole Anderson The Tasmanian Greens said the continual refusal by Federal Minister Tony Burke to move a National Heritage Listing for...
