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Coalition asks miners and coal seam gas firms to respect farmers’ ‘moral rights’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 1st, 2015
Guardian: The Coalition government is asking miners and coal seam gas companies to recognise that the “moral right” of farmers to determine what happens on their land overrides companies’ legal right to explore or mine.
“There is a pathway forward where the producers recognise the right of farmers to control who comes onto their land,” the environment minister, Greg Hunt, told the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday. “It’s a moral right, it’s not, at this moment, because of the constitution, a legal right....
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Looking downstream
Posted by Durango Herald: Ken Neubecker on November 1st, 2015
Durango Herald: It has been pointed out several times that the Aug. 5 Gold King Mine spill into the Animas River was, in one sense, a good thing. It re-awoke the public to Colorado's checkered mining heritage, and the damage done to our rivers for more than a century. But Colorado's mining legacy is more than old mines polluting mountain streams. It also gave us the fundamental laws and traditions that govern our rivers and the water they hold.
In 1859, David Wall dug a small ditch from Clear Creek to irrigate...
Texas storms kill at least six, bring torrential rains
Posted by Reuters: Lisa Maria Garza on November 1st, 2015
Reuters: At least six people have died in Texas in storms that lashed parts of the state with heavy rains, causing flooding and the cancellation of dozens of flights as twisters were reported near Houston, authorities said on Saturday.
A day after tornadoes ripped through buildings outside San Antonio and heavy rains swelled some rivers near Austin to record levels, the National Weather Service reported an apparent twister south of Houston in Brazoria County early on Saturday that damaged 25 trailer homes...
Here’s why China one-child policy was a good thing
Posted by Boston Globe: Sarah Conly on November 1st, 2015
Boston Globe: China has just announced that it is giving up its infamous one-child policy. While the Chinese government has been creating more exceptions to the one-child rule in recent years, this is the first time officials have announced that all couples may have two children if they so choose. The change is being applauded around the world, but it raises the question: Is this really a good thing?
Of course, China has enforced its one-child policy in unacceptable ways. Forced abortions and forced sterilizations...