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Scoop Top Stories For March 3, 2010 News Summary

Scoop Top Stories For March 3, 2010 News Summary

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LEAD STORY

Safer Journeys Together: Road Safety Plan To Change Give Way Rule

NZ POLITICS

Werewolf: Playing Aussie Rules On Defence

Bonus: Cyclist Ruling Allows Nudity, Annoys Family First

ACTA: Public Opinion Sought On Copyright Enforcement Treaty

Youth: Changes Planned To Driving Age, Restrictions

Super City: Protest This Lunchtime

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PM’s Presser: Shootout In Kabul, Phil’s Folly II

Scoop Coverage: Chile Quake, Tsunami – NZ Response

BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH

Also Loves Diggers: Govt Announces Infrastructure Plan

Employment Grievances: Government Releases Discussion Document

Tourism: New Zealanders Lead The Way To Space

Housing: Small Rise In Consents For New Homes

COMMENT

Valuing The Young: The right’s ideological crusade to bring back youth rates

Logo-seditious: Lyndon Hood Responds to the Auckland Transport Agency's Invitation to Design a New City Logo

Rosalea Barker, Left Coasting: Deputy Dogging - Gavin Newsom goes sub-gubernatorial in California

James Robinson: Handwriting’s Premature Demise

Neil Adcock: Does mainstream media coverage distort our understanding of Treaty issues?

Playing Aussie Rules on Defence: Why the Rapid Reaction Force would do more harm than good to the ANZAC spirit

Curriculum Battles: Australia's Banded History

Martin LeFevre: Shaking Up The Global Society

Dolls and Drudges Don Pants: Interview with New York Times columnist Gail Collins About Her New Book

Remembering The Nangpa La Shootings: The Story The Mountain Guiding Industry Doesn't Want You To Know

Deadly Purchases: Unintended Acceleration At Toyota

LIFESTYLE

Arts Festival Review: Inside Out

Television: NZ On Screen - February Top 10

Fringe Review: Sometimes I Don’t Like Yellow

The Hurt Locker: In Praise Of War (Films)

The Complicatist: Kurt Vile, and the Allure of Cover Versions

Tim Bollinger, Reviews and Commentary: Kiwi Komix – Some Local Favourites

Classics: Homecoming (1981) By Cynthia Voigt

Hitching the Pamir Highway: Five Days On The Roof Of The World

WORLD

Earthquake Aftermath: Tsunami Has Swept Away Entire Towns On Chilean Coast

Bamyan Province, Afghanistan: Kiwi Provincial Reconstruction Team Faces Tough Weather

Pacific Scoop: Human Rights Watch Urges Obama To Lobby Indonesia Over West Papua’s Plight

Equality: World Reflects On Womens' Progress

Earthquake: MFAT Update On New Zealanders In Chile

Strings Attached: U.S. Military Assistance Will Harm Reform

Flawed Polling: American Idol “Voted Off” Wrong Contestants

Nigeria: Oil Communities Take Charge Of Security

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LEAD STORY

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Safer Journeys Together: Road Safety Plan To Change Give Way Rule
Transport Minister Steven Joyce today released a new ten year strategy designed to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on our roads over the next decade.The strategy – Safer Journeys – takes a system wide approach by looking at the safety of roads, road users, vehicles and speed. This approach is world best practice but a first for New Zealand. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00041.htm

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[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00054.htm [7]

[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/33331.html [8]

[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/33336.html [9]

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NZ POLITICS

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Werewolf: Playing Aussie Rules On Defence
Gordon Campbell: The announcement most likely to generate headlines in the Defence White Paper due on March 31 will be the official formation of an ANZAC Rapid Reaction Force… Given the harm this is likely to do to New Zealand’s international image of relative neutrality, the force is bound to be controversial. More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/playing-aussie-rules-on-defence/

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[2] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/settling-for-less/" target="_blank [2]

[3] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/left-coasting-deputy-dogging/" target="_blank [3]

[4] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/from-the-hood-5/" target="_blank [4]

[5] - http://werewolf.co.nz/ [5]

Bonus: Cyclist Ruling Allows Nudity, Annoys Family First
Family First NZ says that a High Court judge’s ruling that riding a bike naked is legal is morally bankrupt, offensive, and sets a dangerous precedent. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00039.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/33328.html [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/33262.html [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/33300.html [4]

[5] - http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/kirk-torrance?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NzOnScreen+%28NZ+on+Screen%29" target="_blank [5]

ACTA: Public Opinion Sought On Copyright Enforcement Treaty
Commerce Minister Simon Power is calling for submissions on a range of intellectual property proposals in the digital arena to help develop the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00028.htm

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[2] - http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4829/125/" target="_blank [2]

[3] - http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/2010/03/01/nz-acta-negotiation/" target="_blank [3]

[4] - http://creativefreedom.org.nz/2010/03/publicacta-and-secretacta/" target="_blank [4]

Youth: Changes Planned To Driving Age, Restrictions
The New Zealand youth union movement, Stand Up, has today released its policy statement on driver licensing in response to the Government’s likely move to raise the New Zealand driving age to 17. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00006.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00003.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00002.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1003/S00003.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00028.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00033.htm [6]

[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/33286.html [7]

[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00003.htm [8]

[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00016.htm [9]

Super City: Protest This Lunchtime
"This Government just isn’t listening to Aucklanders when it comes to the future of our democracy. The Governments reluctance to protect Auckland assets, coupled with its refusal to grant Local Boards any real powers has come to a head, says Labour MP, Carol Beaumont. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00015.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00014.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00037.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00065.htm [4]

[5] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/from-the-hood-5/ [5]

PM’s Presser: Shootout In Kabul, Phil’s Folly II
Fifteen members of the Special Air Service (SAS) were embroiled in a firefight with gunmen in Kabul last Friday, Key said at a post-cabinet press conference. The servicemen had provided reinforcements for… More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00012.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/33250.html [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/33273.html [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/33248.html [4]

Scoop Coverage: Chile Quake, Tsunami – NZ Response
Prime Minister John Key has expressed sympathy on behalf of New Zealand to the government and people of Chile following the massive earthquake there. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00002.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00015.htm [2]

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[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00008.htm [7]

[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/33275.html [8]

[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/33247.html [9]

[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/33244.html [10]

[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00002.htm [11]

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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH

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Also Loves Diggers: Govt Announces Infrastructure Plan
The National Infrastructure Plan, issued today, shows the large scale of the Government's infrastructure programme and highlights some future issues that may require action, Infrastructure Minister Bill English says. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00025.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00064.htm [2]

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[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00068.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00034.htm [6]

[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00229.htm [7]

Employment Grievances: Government Releases Discussion Document
The public is being asked to submit their views on the personal grievance system operating under the Employment Relations Act 2000. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00019.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00036.htm [2]

[3] - http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2010/03/extending-unfairness.html" target="_blank [3]

Tourism: New Zealanders Lead The Way To Space
This week Virgin Galactic announced that seven New Zealanders have paid a deposit for a Virgin Galactic sub-orbital spaceflight making New Zealand Virgin’s most significant space tourism market in terms of population size. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1003/S00009.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00005.htm [2]

[3] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2010/03/01/nz-annual-migration-climbs-boosts-housing-demand/ [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00007.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1002/S00768.htm [5]

Housing: Small Rise In Consents For New Homes
The number of new housing units authorised (excluding apartments) rose 0.7 percent in January 2010 when adjusted for seasonal effects, Statistics New Zealand said today. This small rise follows a 3.9 percent decrease in December 2009. When the volatile apartment category is included, the number of new housing units authorised fell by 2.8 percent. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1002/S00761.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0905/S00184.htm [2]

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COMMENT

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Valuing The Young: The right’s ideological crusade to bring back youth rates
Late last month, Sir Roger Douglas’ bill to scrap the mandatory payment of the minimum wage to young workers was chosen from the private member’s ballot, and thus became part of Parliament’s agenda. The avowed purpose of his Minimum Wage... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/valuing-the-young/

Logo-seditious: Lyndon Hood Responds to the Auckland Transport Agency's Invitation to Design a New City Logo
Rather than paying for a real logo, the Auckland Transition Agency has decided to run a public competition, complete with an open brief and a panel of unqualified judges. The idea is, this will be as awesome as the NZ Herald’s flag designs. More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/from-the-hood-5/

Rosalea Barker, Left Coasting: Deputy Dogging - Gavin Newsom goes sub-gubernatorial in California
As March begins, and with less than two weeks to go before candidates have to file their nomination papers for the June primary elections in California, there’s a whole lotta shake-up going on. Since I last wrote about the race for... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/left-coasting-deputy-dogging/

James Robinson: Handwriting’s Premature Demise
There is a generational split you may have noticed. And it doesn’t lead itself to labeling as easily as the Generation X/Generation Y divide. The divide falls between those who were in school when computers... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/handwriting%e2%80%99s-premature-demise/

Neil Adcock: Does mainstream media coverage distort our understanding of Treaty issues?
If the most popular forms of public commentary were anything to go by – Internet comments on mainstream media sites and talkback radio – you would think that New Zealand stands at risk of being bankrupted... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/settling-for-less/

Playing Aussie Rules on Defence: Why the Rapid Reaction Force would do more harm than good to the ANZAC spirit
The announcement most likely to generate headlines in the Defence White Paper due on March 31 will be the official formation of an ANZAC Rapid Reaction Force to police (aka “assist”] the Pacific region. Last year, the Prime Ministers... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/playing-aussie-rules-on-defence/

Curriculum Battles: Australia's Banded History
‘The national curriculum appears quite unbalanced as it stands at the moment,’ complained Opposition Education spokesman Christopher Pyne to gathered members of the press (March 1, Herald Sun ). The Australian Coalition is getting hot and bothered ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00031.htm

Martin LeFevre: Shaking Up The Global Society
The huge earthquake in Chile—8.8 on the Richter scale, one of the largest ever recorded—drives home the point that it isn’t nature that’s at war with humankind, but humankind that’s at war with itself. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00022.htm

Dolls and Drudges Don Pants: Interview with New York Times columnist Gail Collins About Her New Book
Q: Your new book, When Everything Changed (Little, Brown) covers the cascade of rights women won between 1964 and 1972 from equal pay and the right to their own credit rating to the right to wear pants and to be called by the honorific ''MS.'' ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00019.htm

Remembering The Nangpa La Shootings: The Story The Mountain Guiding Industry Doesn't Want You To Know
On the morning of September 30, 2006, around 75 Tibetan refugees trod through deep snow toward Nangpa La, a Himalayan pass at 5,716m that is within view of the area used for Advanced Base Camp (ABC) on Cho Oyu. Exhausted from their two-week journey... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00226.htm

Deadly Purchases: Unintended Acceleration At Toyota
Even David Letterman found room to mock it, but Toyota’s recent acceleration debacle is an episode the company would rather forget. The Japanese giant is mired in a controversial recall of vehicles for sudden acceleration defects, numbering 8.5 million in the ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00223.htm

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LIFESTYLE

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Arts Festival Review: Inside Out
Inside Out from Cirkus Cirkor was an enthralling performance from the moment the audience entered the theatre... The show started with a bang and so it was all the way to the finale. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00023.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00071.htm [2]

Television: NZ On Screen - February Top 10
Check out February’s Top Ten: a particularly choice selection of Aotearoa screen culture as showcased on the site; from Score to A State of Siege, from Nice One Stu to On the Mat ... enjoy! More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00030.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00235.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00237.htm [3]

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[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00231.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00229.htm [6]

[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00011.htm [7]

[8] - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/performing-arts/news/article.cfm?c_id=545&objectid=10628236" target="_blank [8]

[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00071.htm [9]

Fringe Review: Sometimes I Don’t Like Yellow
The premise of the play is: what happens when the CEO of a pineapple company makes a mistake in peddling mysteriously addictive red pineapple? Confusingly, the play doesn’t really deliver on the answer to this question. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00001.htm

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00071.htm [2]

The Hurt Locker: In Praise Of War (Films)
Obviously, war movies are fiction – there is an entire generation whose mental images of the Vietnam War owe more to Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone than to any news bulletins of the day, or any dutiful war memoirs. Same for me... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/the-hurt-locker-in-praise-of-war-films/

The Complicatist: Kurt Vile, and the Allure of Cover Versions
In the 1950s, cover versions enabled white people (I’m talking about you, Pat Boone) to cash in on black music without scaring the public. These days though, an artfully chosen cover version can usefully demonstrate the depth of your musical... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/the-complicatist-kurt-vile-and-the-allure-of-cover-versions/

Tim Bollinger, Reviews and Commentary: Kiwi Komix – Some Local Favourites
In New Zealand there’s a whole bunch of great comic strip artists who you won’t see in the local papers, either because their work is too eccentric, or too long, or too expensive, or just because New Zealand newspaper and magazine publishers are... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/reviews-and-commentary-4%e2%80%a6-by-tim-bollinger/

Classics: Homecoming (1981) By Cynthia Voigt
Curiosity has always been a good friend of creativity. Reportedly, Cynthia Voigt got the idea for Homecoming after looking one day at some kids in a supermarket parking lot, and wondering what would happen if their parents... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/classics-homecoming-1981-by-cynthia-voigt/

Hitching the Pamir Highway: Five Days On The Roof Of The World
By anyone’s standards the Pamir Highway is quite a drive. The road through the ‘Roof of the World’ runs over a thousand kilometres south and then west from Osh in Krygyzstan through to Khorg... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2010/03/travelling-light-five-days-on-the-roof-of-the-world/

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WORLD

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Earthquake Aftermath: Tsunami Has Swept Away Entire Towns On Chilean Coast
Of the quake's 723 victims, most were in the wine-growing Maule region that includes Talcahuano, now a mud-caked, ravaged town of 180,000 just north of Concepcion. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/33291.html

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[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/33275.html [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00040.htm [3]

[4] - http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2010/03/pacific-tsunami-warnings-cancelled/ [4]

Bamyan Province, Afghanistan: Kiwi Provincial Reconstruction Team Faces Tough Weather
While Kiwis in New Zealand are sweltering in a warm late summer, Kiwis with the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan are dealing with thick snow. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00016.htm

Pacific Scoop: Human Rights Watch Urges Obama To Lobby Indonesia Over West Papua’s Plight
We write as you prepare to depart for Jakarta to launch the US-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership. We urge you to seize this opportunity to reaffirm that human rights and the rule of law... More »[1]

[1] - http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2010/03/human-rights-watch-urges-obama-to-lobby-indonesia-over-west-papuas-plight/

Equality: World Reflects On Womens' Progress
In March, the world observes International Women's Day, and, in the United States, Women's History Month. And while women have made great strides in many areas where they once were marginalized, there is still much work to be done in areas including ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00006.htm

Earthquake: MFAT Update On New Zealanders In Chile
We have made contact with around 140 New Zealanders in Chile to confirm they are safe. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00001.htm

Strings Attached: U.S. Military Assistance Will Harm Reform
The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today urged the Obama administration not to offer increased military assistance to Indonesia. ''U.S. military assistance harms reform and sets back human rights accountability in Indonesia,'' said John M. ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1002/S00616.htm

Flawed Polling: American Idol “Voted Off” Wrong Contestants
A series of national studies conducted among 5,025 American Idol viewers revealed that the contestants who were “voted off” during the first semifinal elimination last night did not accurately reflect viewers’ choices. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1002/S00601.htm

Nigeria: Oil Communities Take Charge Of Security
NIGERIA's Environment Minister, Mr. John Odey, has charged oil-bearing communities of the Niger Delta to take control of their internal security. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1002/S00597.htm

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