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Australia orders waste dumping ban on Great Barrier Reef

2015-01-24 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Australia has ordered a ban on dumping dredge waste on most of the Great Barrier Reef, the environment minister said Saturday, as part of a push to stop the UN declaring the site in danger. Environment Minister Greg Hunt said he had ordered the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to develop regulations to stop waste from capital dredging being dumped in the park "once and for all". "We are ending a century-old practice of dumping in the marine park," he said, referring to waste created...

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