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Mandy Nolan calls for safety of Northern Rivers women and children to be prioritised
As the Greens move to declare violence against women a national emergency, Greens candidate for Richmond and community advocate Mandy Nolan will hold a vigil for victims of violence and has called on Northern Rivers Labor MPs to back budget funding to tackle the violence epidemic.
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Child protection workers walk off the job in Lismore
Lismore and Ballina child protection caseworkers stopped work to protest outside the defunct Community Services Centre in Lismore yesterday after two years of working without an office. They have been joined by Ballina child protection caseworkers who had their office shut in January.
North Byron Hotel comes alive as ‘Caper festival’s official watering hole’
North Byron Hotel is the official watering hole of Caper Byron Bay Food & Culture Festival 2024. With a jam-packed schedule spanning over 10 days, the sun-drenched garden is set to come alive with creativity and collaboration, starting on 17 May.
First guests revealed for Byron Writers Fest
The first wave of authors set to grace the Byron Writers Festival stages for the 2024 event have been announced.
Bangalow Bluedogs miss out on Anzac Day Cup football win
The Men’s Premier League Anzac Day Cup for 2024 has been won by the Lismore Richmond Rovers after they won a penalty shoot-out against last year’s premiers, the Bangalow Bluedogs.
The Band that Loves to Chill on Another Planet
North Coast Music industry Award winning Reggae Band Radio Jupiter is back with a new line up and a new album. They will be performing live at the Chillingham Cafe on Saturday 4th May from 3pm. Put on your dancing feet and experience the intergalactic reggae grooves of Radio Jupiter. See you there!
May the 4th be with you at the Nudge
The galaxies have aligned with two amazing guest DJs – DANU, aka Kelly Lynch, and Andrew Haig – joining the Cunning Stunts resident DJs Lord Sut and Dale Stephen in the Shed at May’s Nudge Nudge Wink Wink: The Ultimate Party with a Conscience!
Stories about "CSG emissions":
Planet Watch: the madness and corruption of unconventional gas
The people of the Northern Rivers of NSW breathed a big sigh of relief when they stopped the unconventional gas industry at Bentley. But the industry didn't stop when it hit resistance – it simply went around us, and left the region in a false bubble of security.
Australia’s gas emissions could cause Paris target failure
A new report by the University of Melbourne Energy Institute has found that unmeasured methane leakage and fugitive emissions from unconventional gasfields could cause Australia to fail its Paris climate commitments.
CSG methane emissions under CSIRO scrutiny
For the first time in Australia, CSIRO is developing a dedicated methane research program in the Surat Basin which will help define Australia’s coal-seam gas (CSG) emission profile.
SCU researchers trace methane emissions to CSG mines
Lock the Gate has hailed the publication of Australia’s first peer-reviewed research into ‘fugitive’ methane emissions from coal-seam gas mining, saying it backs up similar research in the US.
Fugitive CSG emissions are proving a big deal
Leaking methane is the Achilles' heel of Australia’s coal seam gas export industry, so there was a rush last week to welcome the CSIRO’s first measurements of these 'fugitive emissions', which found little leakage. But the finding was much narrower than initial reports suggested.
National News
Alliance for Nature NSW calls Minns Government to account over habitat clearing
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The Alliance for Nature NSW says the critical environmental reforms have been delayed and ignored, with concerning indications that some members of the Minns Cabinet are seeking to water down or simply not enact these election commitments.
National News
‘It’s not love, it’s coercive control’
Today the NSW government is launching an advertising campaign to raise public awareness and understanding of coercive control.
Byron Echo
Mother’s Day tree planting returns
Brunswick Valley Landcare’s (BVL) celebrated, and much-loved, annual Mother’s Day tree planting returns on Sunday, May 12, with plans to plant 1,500 trees alongside live music, a barbecue, cakes, coffee and a very special community feel.
Local News
Rising Tide Northern Rivers launched
Rising Tide Northern Rivers is part of a peaceful mass movement for climate defence, recently launched at Hastings Point and in Lismore.
