Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, is to address the nation as a row rages over a presidential election that has pitted secularists, including the army, against his government.
His address on Monday comes after Turkey’s financial markets tumbled in the wake of the instability triggered by huge anti-government rallies.
Secularists are suspicious of Erdogan’s Islamic-led government and are opposed to Abdullah Gul’s candidacy for president – he is the foreign minister and the prime minister’s nominee for the job.
Erdogan and Gul say such suspicions are groundless and point to their pro-Western record in office. Read more
Police are calling an anti-coal mining protest in Christchurch today, in which two men were arrested, “irresponsible”.
Two protesters from environmental group Save Happy Valley chained themselves to a railway track near Christchurch about midday, while another 20 surrounded a stopped coal train.
Activists Simon Riddel and Gregory Curline said they locked themselves to the track to draw attention to Solid Energy’s opencast coal mining operations.
Protesters also hung a 22-metre banner, “Solid Energy: Govt Sponsored Climate Chaos”, along two coal wagons. Read more
Maine wants to ban the data mining and sale of identifiable prescription records to drug companies. It’s about time. But marketing to doctors is not the only unwanted and illegal use of your personal prescription records.
Identifiable prescription records have been data mined daily from every pharmacy in the U.S. for over a decade and sold to insurers for underwriting and to large employers. These secret uses result in discrimination, job loss, and increased insurance rates or even insurance denial. Losing your job is far worse than having drug companies pressure doctors and pharmacists to change your prescriptions. Read more
BARTON // When Randy Preston sees a cloud of dust headed his way, he knows what to expect — more heavy trucks on their way to or from the surface coal mine on the mountain above his home.
The dust and coal ash from the trucks coat his house in Allegany County, says the 43-year-old Barton native, and the rumble of the traffic past his bedroom wakes him hours before dawn.
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“Beginning at 3 a.m. they start going up, and by 4 o’clock they’re hauling down,” he says. Disabled with medical problems, Preston contends that the dust and din of traffic to and from the mine have contributed to a nonstop headache he has had for the past two years. Read more
MONTREAL, April 27 /CNW Telbec/ – From April 29 to May 1, the Mining in
Society show, an educational and interactive exhibition designed to
familiarize the public, youth in particular, with the mining industry, will be
held in Montreal for the first time. Combined with a Career Fair, this show is
a presentation of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
(CIM) in conjunction with Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR). Read more
he federal opposition’s environment spokesman Peter Garrett is a team player and will now promote the party’s stance on uranium mining despite his well-known opposition, Labor leader Kevin Rudd says.
Labor voted on Saturday to expand its uranium mining policy to allow the opening of more uranium mines.
Mr Rudd said it was a very close vote.
“This was a very narrow run thing in the national conference of the Labor Party yesterday,” Mr Rudd told ABC TV. Read more
Local importer and distributor of Gison pneumatic tools Reef Pneumatics & Industrial Supplies is aiming to expand its imports to meet the growing demand of its client base.
The company supplies impact wrenches and heavy-duty rock breakers to various platinum mines, including Impala Plati- num, Anglo Platinum and other mining companies. Read more