The Great Barrier Reef off the Queensland coast is home to a wealth of marine life. Captions and Photo source: ©© NASA
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The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority “committed suicide” when it permitted millions of cubic metres of dredge spoil to be dumped near the reef, one of the world’s leading coral reef scientists says…
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Great Barrier Reef Authority Approves Dredging And Dumping To Expand Port, Guardian UK (01-31-2014)
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has approved a proposal to dump dredge spoil (about 3 million cubic meters 106 million cubic feet) from the Abbot Point coal terminal expansion in the Marine Park area…
Great Barrier Reef’s Unprecedented Threat From Dredging, Dumping, Guardian UK (05-07-2014)
The impact of dredging and dumping sediment on the Great Barrier Reef has been far greater than the mining industry has claimed, with nearly 150m tonnes of new dredging set to take place in the reef’s waters, a study shows…
Australia Great Barrier Reef Outlook “Poor And Deteriorating”, BBC News (08-14-2014)
Barrier Reef Dredge Spoil Could Travel Further, Guardian UK (07-01-2014)
