1:00 AM AEDT | As the bushfire season approaches, the Tasmania Fire Service is making preparations, and acting chief officer Mike Brown is urging Tasmanians whose homes are in or within 100m of bushland to do the sa...
1:00 AM AEDT | Over the last two bushfire seasons the Tasmania Fire Service has distributed a free DVD, Bushfire - Prepare To Survive, to home owners throughout the State whose properties are at risk from bushfire.
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1:00 AM AEDT | The Tasmania Fire Service cannot stress enough to people who live in areas at high risk of bushfire, to be prepared.
"It must be recognised that in limited cases, some buildings, due to their constr...
2/12/2008 | THE Dorset Economic Development Group was looking forward to a favourable assessment of its seven- dam proposal for the North-East, chairman Tas Rainbow said.
Mr Rainbow said that its proposal was f...
29/11/2008 | Parks and Wildlife Service staff are rushing to the scene of the State's second mass whale stranding in as many weeks.
It is understood more than 80 long-finned pilot whales have beached themselves at remote Sandy Cape, on the West Coast.
28/11/2008 | THE Greens have renewed calls to implement chemical trespass laws after pesticides and herbicides were detected in 10 Tasmanian rivers. The Department of Primary Industries has released data from its latest chemical tests of 55 rivers and streams from October...
27/11/2008 | LANDOWNERS are being urged to be vigilant following falls of welcome recent rain.
Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association Weeds Council chairman Phil Reader said that weeds would be first to ta...
26/11/2008 | A FREE public information session regarding algal blooms in Lake Trevallyn will be held tomorrow, at the University of Tasmania's Sir Raymond Ferrall Centre from 6pm to 8pm.
26/11/2008 | A LEGISLATIVE Council select committee investigating the management of the Tamar estuary and its catchments will hear submissions in Launceston tomorrow.
Chaired by Rosevears MLC Kerry Finch, the co...
26/11/2008 | DESPITE heavy rainfalls along the East Coast last week, the water and sewerage report remained the one of the pertinent items on the agenda for the Glamorgan Spring Bay Council yesterday.
Despite be...
25/11/2008 | THE Northern Midlands Council is progressing the second of its two planned pipelines to ease potable water shortages in the municipality.
Last year the council approved construction of a 12km pipeli...
23/11/2008 | LIMA - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is this weekend pushing for Asia-Pacific leaders to extend the mandate on global economic reform set in train by G20 nations.
Fresh from the G20 meeting in Washingto...
23/11/2008 | PRIMARY Industries and Water Minister David Llewellyn said that he was "bitterly disappointed" by the Federal Government's decision to disallow an additional release of water from lakes Crescent a...
22/11/2008 | Greenpeace won't be there but the Sea Shepherd will continue with its confrontational protest against Japanese whaling ships. AFTER Japanese whalers depart for Antarctica's icy waters this...
20/11/2008 | A POST-MORTEM on a Pygmy Right Whale found dead on Tasmania's East Coast has found two plastic caps inside its stomach.
20/11/2008 | ENVIRONMENT Minister Peter Garrett had failed to meet a deadline for providing an answer on Tasmania's application for an emergency release of water for the Clyde River area, Liberal Senator Richa...
20/11/2008 | TASMANIAN Women In Agriculture members are delighted at Belinda Hazell's appointment to the Drought Task Force.
Department of Primary Industries and Water acting manager of regional and busine...
20/11/2008 | THE impact of water flows through the Cataract Gorge on the Tamar River's silt problem will be better understood when a hydrodynamic study is released next month.
But it appears that the river&#...
20/11/2008 | TASMANIAN Liberal Senator Guy Barnett said the State Government was too slow to act when Rosebery residents raised fears water seeping from the ground was poisoning them.
Senator Barnett was at Rose...
20/11/2008 | Following a European Union decision to remove certain chemicals and pesticides from use and to protect water catchments and food from chemical contamination, the Tasmanian Greens yesterday called on t...
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