Barry Healy

  • Steps toward ending radioactive dumping in oceans

    Steps toward ending radioactive dumping in oceansOn the final day of the meeting of the OSPAR Convention on September 5 in Brussels, the British and French governments for the first time agreed to moves to end marine nuclear

  • In brief

    In briefBP backs off Energy conglomerate British Petroleum has backed off from legal attempts to seize the bank accounts of UK Greenpeace. On August 21, BP dropped court actions against Greenpeace for its campaign

  • Greenpeace targets oil drilling off Scotland and Alaska

    Greenpeace has stepped up its international campaign on global warming by targeting attempts to drill for oil on the Atlantic frontier (the Arctic fringe of the Atlantic Ocean). As a result, it has been subjected to extraordinary

  • 'No contest' in US Congressional elections

    The Center for Voting and Democracy, an organisation in the United States that focuses on voter participation and fair representation, has released a report on elections to the House of Representatives titled "Monopoly Politics".

  • Brazilian environmentalists oppose hunting law

    Brazilian environmentalists oppose hunting lawThe Brazilian environment organisation Ecopantanal is asking for help to oppose a new hunting law in the state of Mato Grosso. The law creates private hunting parks and permits

  • Greenpeace condemns incinerator plans for Lebanon

    Greenpeace condemns incinerator plans for LebanonGreenpeace's Mediterranean office has condemned plans to build a waste incinerator in southern Lebanon. Lebanese officials have confirmed a that an unidentified German company

  • Uniting Church discusses sexuality

    The Uniting Church Assembly, the churchs highest decision making body, met in Perth for a week beginning on July 5. While the assembly took strong positions in support of Aboriginal rights, it was the discussion around the report

  • Brazilian Indians threaten energy towers

    Brazilian Indians threaten energy towersAccording to a statement from the Indianist Missionary Council, the Pankararu Indians in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco are ready to burn down power transmission towers if actions

  • Cod liver oil polluted

    Cod liver oil pollutedFriends of the Earth UK has demanded that the British government release details of which brands of cod liver oil are most contaminated by cancer-causing and hormone-disrupting PCBs and dioxins. This

  • NGOs picket PNG forestry office

    NGOs picket PNG forestry officePNG NGOs including the Individual and Community Rights Advocacy Forum Inc, Conservation Melanesian, Melanesian Environment Foundation (MEF) and Greenpeace picketed PNGs National Forest

  • Eveleigh Street Aborigines under attack

    SYDNEY — Following a police raid on January 14, there has been a flurry of publicity about crime problems in the Aboriginal community centred on Eveleigh Street, Redfern, known as "the Block". Forty police sealed off the area and

  • Waterloo incinerator to close

    SYDNEY — In a major victory for local residents Waterloo incinerator will close on November 23. The announcement brings to a close 31 years of controversy about the plant. Waverley and Woollahra councils, the incinerators owners,