'The Franklin would be dammed today': Australia's shrinking environmental protections
by Adam Morton from Environment | The Guardian on (#3EK41)
The nation is losing the political will to protect our pristine places - and biodiversity is suffering
What if the Franklin river hadn't been saved?
Stopping the Gordon-below-Franklin dam was one of the Australian environment movement's great victories: in the late 1970s, the state-owned Hydro-Electric Commission wanted to flood one of three last temperate rainforests in the southern hemisphere to create a power station.
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