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Healthy Rivers Dubbo: Media Release
No New Weir. Don’t Damn The Macquarie. Healthy Rivers Dubbo has launched a community powered campaign featuring television, radio and newspaper advertisements to highlight concerns about plans to dam the Wambuul Macquarie River at Gin Gin, between Narromine and Warren. Next month the Detailed Business Case for the proposed ‘Macquarie […]
Lue Action Group: Media Release
Concerned Mudgee and Lue residents gather in opposition to proposed Lue lead mine For the fourth week running, residents of the Rylstone, Lue and Mudgee area have gathered at the Lue Community Hall to hear and discuss important information relating to the proposed Bowdens Lead, Zinc and Silver mine. On […]
Protection of the Goulburn River and The Drip gorge significantly weakened by new mine approval
A previous mine approval condition required progressive expert review of underground mining impacts on this highly sensitive area. This condition has been drastically altered, and now delays reporting until after the extraction of coal from four critically located longwalls. This extraction comes within 200 metres of the bed of the […]
Don’t be mis-lead!
The adverse health effects of lead are well known. It is a naturally occurring toxic metal found in the Earth’s crust. Lead’s widespread use has resulted in extensive environmental contamination, human exposure and significant public health problems in many parts of the world. For our safety it has been taken […]
Tracking justice on World Environment Day
Many of us are breathing a sigh of relief as restrictions cautiously ease across Australia to allow for somewhat greater social interaction and economic activity. Our governments are changing laws and legal processes almost at a daily pace. Fortunately, Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) lawyers have been watching as State and Territory governments have […]
Healthy Rivers Dubbo: Media Release
Healthy Rivers Dubbo (HRD) is a grass roots community group dedicated to providing a strong voice for our local rivers, aquifers and wetlands in the Murray – Darling Basin for the benefit of wildlife, plants and people. Media Release “A plan to build an enormous regulating weir on the Macquarie […]
Hey bud, how are you growing?
Well, if you were a plant the answer would be, ‘by influences on my hormone system’. Within a single plant there are various types of buds, all with different functions. The plant’s hormones play a significant role in how, when, and if the buds develop. Apical or terminal buds appear […]
Taking action in a vital year
What a busy, positive year has been concluded for Mudgee District Environment Group (MDEG). The group has been highlighting global issues by working locally since 1989. Its latest AGM was held on Sunday 29th March using the on-line format GoToMeeting. Chairperson Phyllis Setchell presented a report which included a detailed […]
The wide brown land for me
Dorothea Mackellar loved this country and shared her love in the iconic poem ‘My Country’…’A Stark white ring-barked forest, All tragic to the moon, The sapphire-misted mountains, The hot gold hush of noon.’ This challenging land and its many faces is beloved by us all. But how does that love […]