Tag: Environment
Loggers sentenced for attacking Florentine protesters
Three Tasmanian forest contractors have been given community service orders for assaulting forest protesters in the state's south, two years ago.[MORE]
Residents encouraged to collect rubbish this weekend
Karratha residents are being urged to spend a few hours picking up rubbish this weekend. [MORE]
Additional rebate offered for installing solar power
Gascoyne residents are being encouraged to take up an offer of an additional rebate when they install solar power technology. [MORE]
Oakeshott accused of ignoring parts his electorate
Rob Oakeshott is being accused of ignoring areas in the southern part of his Lyne electorate.[MORE]
Tyrrell Creek continues to rise
Water levels are continuing to rise in the Tyrrell Creek at Culgoa.[MORE]
SCU holds coral reef conference
Threats to the world's coral reefs and ways to avert them will be under the spotlight in Coffs Harbour this weekend.[MORE]
Committee raises questions over carbon capture
A Victorian parliamentary committee has found there are still more questions than answers about the potential of storing carbon in soil.[MORE]
Bilby population rises in south-west Qld
Surveys in south-west Queensland have shown a big increase in numbers of one of the state's most endangered marsupials. [MORE]
Orange Council to chase Labor promise next week
The Orange City Council will give the Federal Government a week to settle into office before chasing money promised for its Macquarie water pipeline.[MORE]
Floods unearth 20km stretch of locust eggs
The Australian Plague Locust Commission says egg beds up to nearly 20 kilometres long have been exposed in north-western Victoria after the recent flooding.[MORE]
Call for tighter regulations after miner fined
An environmental group says the Queensland Government needs to tighten regulations around mines after a company in the state's north-west was fined for releasing contaminated stormwater. [MORE]
Floods bring Murray back from the brink
The floods which have destroyed farmland and property in northern Victoria will flush out the mouth of the Murray naturally for the first time in almost a decade.[MORE]
Works at Tugun desal plant almost complete
Queensland Infrastructure and Planning Minister Stirling Hinchliffe says the Tugun desalination plant on the Gold Coast is working again.[MORE]
Drought embankment to go on lower Murray
Water is about to flow naturally from Lake Alexandrina to Albert on the lower Murray for the first time in more than two years.[MORE]
Miners withdraw bid for QR coal network
A consortium of mining companies is not going ahead with its bid to buy the Queensland Rail (QR) coal network.[MORE]
Fox baiting to help ground birds breed
Landholders will receive free fox baits from the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resources management board over the next two-months.[MORE]
Government to pay for Bidyadanga rubbish removal
The Federal Government will pick up the $25,000 bill to do a weekly pick-up of rubbish from Western Australia's largest Aboriginal community to Broome.[MORE]
Independent body should review water retailers' books: LGAQ
The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) says any review of the state's south-east water retailers' books should be undertaken by an independent economic body. [MORE]
Flooding prompts contaminated water fears
Goulburn-Murray Water is warning rural landholders in northern Victoria to treat all water sourced from channels and rivers. [MORE]
Port Stephens dredging nears completion
Dredging of the Myall River at Port Stephens is just weeks away from being completed after a decade of campaigning by the local community.[MORE]
Rains see dam levels reach 10-year high
Recent heavy rain has seen Bundaberg and Burnett dam levels reach a 10-year high. [MORE]
Fear raised for commercial fishing under Labor
Fishing groups in Queensland say they have concerns for the future of the industry under a Labor minority government.[MORE]
Six week repair wait for damaged wind turbines
It could take another couple of months to get two damaged wind turbines back up and running on Hobart's Marine Board building.[MORE]
3km-long locust egg bed ready to hatch
A three-kilometre long bed of locust eggs has been found in central New South Wales and is expected to start hatching as the weather warms up. [MORE]
BP wants to share blame for Gulf disaster
Failures by several parties led to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, British energy group BP concluded in the results of an internal inquiry.[MORE]
