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Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people
2013-04-28 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia's "premier tourist destination". This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked, for me, Robben Island in South Africa. Empires are never short of devil's islands; what makes Rottnest different indeed, what makes Australia different is silence and denial on an epic scale. "Five awesome reasons to visit!" the brochure says. These range from "family fun" to "historical Rottnest". The island is described as "a guiding...
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Northern Gateway panel tangled in complex web of aboriginal rights, title
2013-03-17 23:32:20| Energy - Topix.net
A top Northern Gateway Pipelines official says the company is trying to balance the many competing interests in the project, and realizes it may be impossible to satisfy them all.
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Northern Gateway panel tangled in complex web of aboriginal rights, title
2013-03-17 22:31:34| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A top Northern Gateway Pipelines official says the company is trying to balance the many competing interests in the project, and realizes it may be impossible to satisfy them all.
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Canada aboriginal movement poses new threat to miners
2013-03-17 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An aboriginal protest movement that's often compared with Occupy Wall Street has the potential to disrupt mining projects across Canada, threatening to undermine the country's coveted reputation for low-risk resource development. Idle No More, a grass-roots movement with little centralized leadership, swept across Canada late last year with the help social media. Protesters blocked roads and rail lines, and staged big rallies in the country's largest cities to press a sweeping human rights and...
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