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The NSW government's third attempt to expand the privatisation of water has been averted. Tracey Carpenter reports.

On December 8 and 9, Joliet residents will have the opportunity to ask NRG Energy about their plans to close the leaking unlined coal ash impoundment inside the Lincoln Stone Quarry. NRG is holding two public meetings to review their plan to close the impoundments through a process called “capping,” which leaves the coal ash in place, instead of removing it. This will leave the coal ash permanently in contact with groundwater.

Two public meetings Thursday will address what City Water, Light and Power will do in light of the closing of two coal ash ponds at Lake Springfield.

The Malaysian state of Sarawak was until recently home to some of the last nomadic peoples of Borneo, who roamed its wild and rich rainforests as they had done since time immemorial. Starting in the early 1980s, industrial logging companies moved deep into Sarawak’s hinterland, tearing down forests, forcing forest peoples from their traditional lands, and laying the groundwork for large-scale conversion of biodiverse ecosystems into monoculture plantations. Sarawak’s Indigenous peoples put up resistance against these state-backed incursions into their traditional territories. One of the ...

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