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05/19/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Northern Australia mining town demands the Health Department blood test its residents after water supply found contaminated with lead

The population of Borroloola, a remote mining town in central northern Australia, got the shock of their lives when they heard that their drinking water had higher amounts of lead than normal. In an ABC News report, the indigenous Garawa community is demanding blood testing for affected families from Australia’s Department of Health. Earlier in April […]

01/06/2017 / By JD Heyes

Canada spends hundreds of millions to ‘clean up’ abandoned heavy metal mines but still can’t reuse the land

It seems as though big government bureaucracy is just as wasteful and inefficient in other Western democracies as it is in the United States—a problem that, we hope, will be solved by President Donald J. Trump. As reported by Canada’s National Post, the country has spent more than $350 million taxpayer dollars over many years […]

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