December 17, 2002

Further evidence that climate change is already happening was revealed today when the World Meterological Organisation announced that 2002 has been the second hottest year on record.

December 17, 2002

There were no reactions to an urgent call issued on Dec.11 by the Dutch Parliament and other organisations requesting five major banks to halt investments in the offshore company IHC Caland.

December 13, 2002

To its shareholders, Barrick Gold boasts a five-year US$2-billion development plan to increase its gold production by 21 per cent to 6.9 million ounces in 2006 yet plans to develop the Lake Cowal gold project in Australia have struck obstacles and delays.

December 12, 2002

Today's decision on the Yorta Yorta High Court appeal will be remembered as a shameful event in Australia's history.

In 1998 the Fedral Court's Justice Olney said that the 'tide of history has indeed washed away any real acknowledgement of [Yorta Yorta peoples] traditional laws and any real observance of their traditional customs'. In reconsidering Justice Olney's genocidal verdict, 5 out of 7 high court judges upheld his decision.

December 11, 2002

Amsterdam, December 10, 2002 -- The Canadian Parliament will vote today on a motion to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. The government, which has been committed to ratification since Jean Chretien's announcement at the World Summit in Johannesburg, is expected to win with a signficant majority.

December 3, 2002

National environment group Friends of the Earth expressed surprise and disappointment at today's announcement by the ALP of their new refugee policy.

December 2, 2002

Wiradjuri Elders and Warriors and supporters are heading to Lake Cowal (central NSW) in an attempt to prevent the immediate desecration of one of the most important Aboriginal sites in NSW.

November 29, 2002

Environment group Friends of the Earth (FoE) will today stage a visual protest outside the shareholders meeting that will decide on the controversial planned de-merger of uranium miner WMC. The environment group is concerned over the current and future impacts of the massive Olympic Dam mine in northern South Australia.

November 28, 2002

Friends of the Earth (FOE) will launch the Nuclear FreeWays campaign from Adelaide today. The campaign involves a tour of the planned Federal Government transport route for radioactive waste from the Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney to outback New South Wales. The plan would mean that in the first year up to 130 trucks of waste would pass through rural communities with waste transport continuing for another 40 years.

November 26, 2002

This week the media has been thick with reports of the sinking of the oil tanker Prestige off the Spanish Galician coast. There have been many depressing pictures of the damage wreaked by the 3,000 tonnes of viscous sludge now poisoning local beaches and destroying local livelihoods. There has been much speculation about if and when the remaining 70,000 tonnes of oil will come ashore.