Articles tagged ‘Environment’.

Community outrage at pokies approval
EPIC-animation2
In a shock decision announced this afternoon, the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation has ruled in favour of a proposal to treble the number ...
Read article
Showcasing local sustainable houses
Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) and Council are proud to be jointly hosting a sustainable house tour in Castlemaine on Saturday 25 Februar...
Read article
Pool: why the consultants’ turnaround? Is Council’s Risk Assessment available?
pool4
Dear CI, I read with interest some of the commentary on the Aquatic Centre/Western Oval debate. I keep puzzling over several issues, one of which was ...
Read article
Two!
At the last CI staff meeting
It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
Read article
Council’s withdrawal of commercial waste collection – an already sealed decision?
CastlemaineTownHall
For the Council and beyond This is a letter of objection in regards to the “Council’s withdrawal of commercial waste collection, effective fro...
Read article
US mega-death machines for WA’s Garden Island?
la_class_ssn
Senator for Western Australia Scott Ludlam said yesterday that the Australian Defence Force posture review – an inquiry into Australian defence...
Read article
A welcome end to alpine grazing
alpine-grazing
Greens MP Adam Bandt has welcomed a decision by Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke to reject the Victorian government plan to graze cattle in the...
Read article
You can’t have it both ways
Banana workers harvesting bananas in Queensland. According to the Bureau of Statistics, 375 workers banana workers died last year through exposure to radioactive bananas, A Senate Committee is enquiring into the high rate of genetic defects in banana workers' children.
The Government must end uranium sales to Russia if it is serious about stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the Australian Greens said on Fri...
Read article
Scrap wasteful oil and gas tax breaks and invest in ocean protection
The Federal Government could save $2.3 billion in the 2012-13 Budget by scrapping wasteful and inefficient tax breaks to the oil and gas sector and ot...
Read article
The meat on my plate
arton620
Christian Monahan, The Produce Garden When I was around 16 years old I was sitting in the back of my parents’ car as we drove along on our way t...
Read article
Close to fisticuffs at pool meeting
The Mayor was busy addressing the concerns of the residents.
Photos and story by CI photographer Matt Wobbly The Mt Alexander Shire Souncil held their Aquatic Centre information session at the Town Hall yesterda...
Read article
An aquatic centre will NOT be built on that site
Exif_JPEG_PICTURE
There are some very important things to be said on the issue of flooding in Castlemaine. The lower part of the town is actually built in a dam with th...
Read article
Dance for the de-miners
Imagine a farmer losing two arms and an eye. He was found in his home wasting away.
Back in the 1960s and early 70s, the US dropped millions of tonnes of bombs and mines on South-East Asia. It was the Vietnam War, and Laos and Cambodi...
Read article
Reasoned debate on windfarms welcomed
Dear CI, I am an enthusiast of renewable energy. Regardless of all the ongoing debate about climate change, with the end in sight for fossil fuels, ou...
Read article
Highlanders: wolves in sheep’s clothing?
The Maryborough Highland Society is well liked by some in our community: those who ‘buy’ the not for profit community group ‘sports ...
Read article
At the VCGR – Maryborough Highlanders Vs the Castlemaine Community
ResponsibleGambling
By Chris Hosking The Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation conducts hearings to grant licenses – or not grant them – to applicants seeking ...
Read article
Council ceases rubbish collection for business
Dear CI, At the end of its last Council meeting for 2011, our Councillors quietly voted to stop rubbish collection in the Shire … (while you pic...
Read article
Deadly outcome for unlucky mushroom consumers
The Death Cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides)
By Alison Pouliot The start to 2012 was marred by the tragic news of the deaths of two people following consumption of Death Cup mushrooms (Amanita ph...
Read article
The floods at Castlemaine
flood
From The Argus, 3 January 1889 CASTLEMAINE, January 2. The drought has broken up at last. It may be may be that those cyclonic changes about which a...
Read article
Feasting on dragonflies
Rainbow Bee-eaters with dragonfly prey, Cemetery Road Newstead, 31st December 2011.
Words and images courtesy of Geoff Park, of Natural Newstead. The Rainbow Bee-eaters along Cemetery Road are still feeding tunnel-bound nestlings, alm...
Read article
Pool benefits Castlemaine, not the Shire
I heartily applaud Andrea Ross for her comments and thoughts. The greatest benefit of the Aquatic Centre will be to Castlemaine NOT to the Shire of Mt...
Read article
Dirty Money: Greed, Pollution and Murder
"A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.”  - attributed to Mark Twain
Dirty Money Greed, Pollution and Murder, by MATTHEW BENNS Mining is a dirty business. This book reveals that the real dirt lies in the boardrooms of s...
Read article
DFAT must investigate Arc Exploration’s activities in Indonesia
resize.php
Following Arc Exploration’s suspension of its operations in Indonesia, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade should immediately investigat...
Read article
Castlemaine link to Indonesian massacre?
Image courtesy fo the ABC
Video footage has emerged of Indonesian police firing on protesters – killing three people and wounding nine – over a planned gold mine co...
Read article
Council pursues Western Reserve option
25m_Indoor_Pool
Despite widespread opposition, Council is pursuing its indoor pool option at the Western Reserve. This week Council has presented a concept design aft...
Read article
Pokies addiction blamed for young mum’s death
Coroner blames pokies addiction for Katherine Natt's death (ABC News)
From ABC Adelaide A young mother-of-two killed herself because she could not cope with her poker machine addiction, the South Australian coroner has f...
Read article
Council thumbs down to MHS pokies proposal
Last week Council voted to not support the application by the Maryborough Highland Society for new gaming premises approval at the old Goods Shed in K...
Read article
Good news on the Chewton pines
Gary Tepper, the bush fire advisory officer from Peter Ryan’s office, Spring Street Melbourne  has ordered a full investigation into removing t...
Read article
Holiday reading: Toxic Russian space probe headed for Castlemaine?
Ia17-8-Probe
The heaviest interplanetary spacecraft ever launched – the Russian Phobos-Ground probe – is about to become one of the most dangerous man-made obj...
Read article
Community wind hits the streets
wind-turbines-jj-002
Last week residents met with the Mount Alexander Community Wind Working Group to guide the six-month strategy for Mount Alexander Community Wind, incl...
Read article
The PM believes in fairytales (so how come she won’t disappear in a cloud of fairy dust?)
Let's make Pakistan next!
By Anonymous Since when is a meeting in a bar a “modern-day fairytale”? Did Fred and Mary have a drunken shag in the dairy and then he won...
Read article
The critical decade
tipping
The red zone is run away climate change, what we get  if we can’t keep the global temperature rise below the ‘safe-ish’ two degrees rise. T...
Read article
CFA chemicals linked to cancer deaths
Carcinogenic chemicals stored at the Country Fire Authority (CFA) headquarters in regional Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s have been linked to the dea...
Read article
Why solar parity scares big utilities
… This might explain why state governments, in Victoria and NSW in particular, are happy to delay the rollout of renewable energy at a large sc...
Read article
Fire ready information at the market
This weekend’s Castlemaine Farmers Market will include a stall where residents can collect a wide range of useful fire ready and emergency informati...
Read article
Indian uranium plan fails nuclear test
Yellow cake being processed
ACF yesterday welcomed expert advice that any planned move to sell Australian uranium to India would be unlawful. The confirmation comes ahead of this...
Read article