Nestle and the human right to water [part 1]
There is a video doing the rounds at the moment of Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe declaring that water isn’t a human right and arguing that the best way to ensure fair distribution is through privatisation and assigning a market value [...]
Coal Seam Gas, Four Corners, and failed governance
Last night’s Four Corners focused on Coal Seam Gas, moving between the stories of farmers and claims by a whistleblower that the governance process for the approval of Santos and QGC projects by the Queensland Government in 2010 was flawed. [...]
How the Wivenhoe engineers fell foul of the Floods Commission
As I outlined in the first post, in February this year the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry reconvened as a result of reporting in The Australian by Hedley Thomas which suggested there had been a major breach of the flood [...]
Could the Wivenhoe flood engineers have done better?
As I mentioned in the other post, which is necessary reading for background, the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry in its Final Report did suggest that the engineers could have done better – a little, perhaps – but were sufficiently [...]
Amazing rain, and what the flood engineers did about it
Most people had the impression that the four flood engineers, Robert Ayre, John Ruffini, John Tibaldi and Terry Malone, had done pretty well during the Brisbane 2011 flood event, which began on 6 January when the Wivenhoe Dam first exceeded [...]
Behind the Seams: Agriculture, land use and aquifers
Because of Crikey’s IT problems last week, there’s a bit of a backlog in Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams articles, so we’re publishing this piece here. In CSG and the land: straight from the farmers’ mouths I looked at [...]
Behind the Seams: Regulating Coal Seam Gas
Crikey’s website is down today, so we’re publishing the latest Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams posts here. NB: You might like to consider donating to support the work of FAQ Research on our Coal Seam Gas project. The project [...]
Quick link to CSG water post
I’ve put up a post at The Wellhead entitled How much water is produced with CSG? This post mainly attempts to give a picture of the quantities of water produced in order to extract coal seam gas. I’m working on [...]
Draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan
One can only marvel at a “Plain English Summary” of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan that’s virtually as long as the plan itself. But both, along with a great deal of supporting material, is now available from the Authority. As you’ve [...]
Quiggin on the Murray-Darling parliamentary committee report
Less buybacks, more engineering works – that’s what the forward to the House Standing Committee on Regional Australia report on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan recommends, in a nutshell. The Australian Conservation Foundation is unimpressed to say the least. John Quiggin [...]
Napoleon Newman’s LNP takeover
The latest in the Campbell Newman putsch: he’s bringing his own election strategists with him, and all LNP policy has now been declared null and void. The Election Team Leader needs a Clean Slate. Presumably to be filled in with [...]
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