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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  18 hours ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  3 days ago

• Buie tract plan conjures criticism

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 149
  Strong criticism has exploded at both the San Marcos City Council and the San Marcos Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) over a proposed development on the Buie Tract adjacent to the Franklin Square, Oak Heights, and Westover neighborhoods in western reaches of the city.
  4 days ago

• Ogallala Aquifer and Radioactive Waste Dump

  
  Endangered Spaces blog — Authority: 119
  I have had a few comments and contacts regarding my post on the radioactive dump site in West Texas . Mostly, the sentiment seems to be that if people want a radioactive dump, then they should be able to have one. While I agree that land owners rights take first place in most decisions, the radioactive waste dump ...
  4 days ago

• DAVAO CITY INTENSIFIES WATERSHED PROTECTION

  
  durianburgdavao — Authority: 134
  100 environmentalists join workshop watershed management  Stakeholders linking arms to protect the Davao City watershed areas would converge here in a workshop on Saturday. To be held at the Davao City Council, about 100 participants from the academe, environmental non-governmental organizations, and local and ...
  5 days ago

• Say No to Radioactive Dump in Texas

  
  Endangered Spaces blog — Authority: 119
  Radioactive Waste Commission Punts [in Texas] | NukeFree.org Last week, the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission postponed decision making for 30 days. The contentious issue the import and export of radioactive waste to and from Texas to a waste dump near Andrews County, Texas. ...
  1 week ago

• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  1 week ago

• Residents push TxDOT for action on FM 1626

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 149
  About 300 Buda-area residents, upset with crawling progress on improvements to FM 1626, attended a public hearing conducted by the Texas Department of Public Transportation (TxDOT) Tuesday night at Elm Grove Elementary School and asked for the project to move faster.
  1 week ago

• Foster + Partners propose green masterplan for Mexican health city

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 489
  British architectural firm Foster + Partners’ masterplan has been finalized for a new 71-hectare medical research campus in Mexico City. Sitting next to the southern medical cluster and the National University, the Campus Biometropolis will include laboratories, research institutions, a centre of medical ...
  1 week ago

• Don’t Let Texas Become the Nation’s Radioactive Waste Dumping Ground

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 557
  Join us next Thursday, December 10th to help stop Texas from becoming the nation’s radioactive waste dump! Please Come: Texas Compact Commission Stakeholder Meeting Thursday, December 10th at 9am Texas Capitol, Extension Auditorium, E1.004 You are invited to attend the press conference as well, held by the SEED ...
  2 weeks ago

• DAVAO CITY COUNCIL DROWNS HEDCOR HYDROPOWER PROJECT

  
  durianburgdavao — Authority: 134
  A victory for Davao City Water District By ROGER M. BALANZA Two committees of the Davao City Council have slammed the last nail on the coffin of the Aboitiz-owned Hedcor, Inc. which is planning a multi-million peso hydropower dam project in upland Calinan district. The twin bodies’ decision to deny an ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Safe is Your Well Water?

  
  CT Green Scene — Authority: 120
  by Jessica Levinson Jessica Levinson is an environmental engineer from Nyack, New York. She has her undergraduate degree in biology and her master’s degree in environmental engineering. Jess is the past recording secretary for the Long Island Water Environmental Association...
  2 weeks ago

• Hi-tech geo-information technology system offered Davao City

  
  durianburgdavao — Authority: 134
  UNESCO, China to help Davao protect watersheds             A Chinese university professor has offered free software on watershed protection to Davao City, a move much applauded by over a hundred participants in a forum on watershed conservation held at the Marco Polo Hotel yesterday. Professor Dr. Demin ...
  2 weeks ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  2 weeks ago

• HEDCOR, DCWD row over Tamugan River in Davao City water forum

  
  durianburgdavao — Authority: 134
  Unesco water expert is main speaker By ROGER M. BALANZA             The results of a workshop by water conservation experts on the Talomo-Panigan-Tamugan Watersheds would be presented in a crucial gathering here on Monday as two utility firms are locked in battle over rights to the Tamugan River . ...
  2 weeks ago

• PANALIPDAN HITS PROPOSED “WIN-WIN SOLUTION” IN USING TAMUGAN RIVER

  
  durianburgdavao — Authority: 134
  Davao City —  Environmental rights network, PANALIPDAN–Southern Mindanao expressed an indignant response to the so called ‘win-win solution’ proposed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the water sharing of ...
  2 weeks ago

• State planning could close river for rec use

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 149
  The decline of Texas Wild Rice, which grows naturally only in the San Marcos River, could motivate state aquifer protection planners to pressure the city into closing parts of the river for recreational uses.
  3 weeks ago

• Council to look at police, fire contract

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 149
  San Marcos City Councilmembers could be voting on close $3 million of expenditures in the next three years when they decide whether to accept collectively bargained agreements with their police and firefighters Tuesday night.
  3 weeks ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  3 weeks ago

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