The Franklin Dam Franklin Dam The Franklin Dam or Gordon-below-Franklin Dam project was an attempt to dam the Gordon River in Tasmania‚ Australia‚ for the purposes of hydroelectricity. This would have subsequently destroyed the environmentally sensitive Franklin River‚ which joined the Gordon nearby. During the campaign against the dam‚ both areas were World Heritage listed. Over the five years between the announcement of the dam proposal in 1978 and the axing of the plans in 1983‚ there
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Reading Wanna‚ J 2007‚ Improving Federalism: Drivers of Change‚ Repair Options and Reform Scenarios‚ The Australian Journal of Public Administration‚ vol. 66‚ no. 3‚ pp 275-279. Purpose The author aims to inform the readers of the impediments and declining condition of the current system of Australian Federalism‚ he provides evidence for the need to change and provides reforms on how to make governance work better to provide improved policy outcomes for the Australian community. Argument/Finding
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THE FEDERALISM SYSTEM Federalism in the United States is a complex and ever-changing network of relations between national‚ state‚ and local governments. Federalism requires that state and local governments play a role in nearly every policy area. To fight the War on Terror‚ for example‚ the FBI‚ a federal organization‚ seeks to cooperate with state and local police forces. Worries about an impending avian flu epidemic have state health agencies and local hospitals working with the Centers for
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Participant’s name: Leon Scott State/Territory: Qld Participant’s email: leon_scott@health.qld.gov.au Date of submission: 02/09/2012 Assessor to complete Assessor’s name: Max Halupka Mark: 88 /100 Essay on Federalism OR Accountability Leon‚ This is an excellent assignment‚ one that you should be very proud of. Starting with an impressive introduction‚ you outline the paper’s parameters and explicitly state its argument. Your analysis draws upon a wide
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roll on‚ Columbia‚ roll on! -Woody Guthrie‚ "RollOn Columbia."(1941) In EncountersWith the Archdruid‚ 1971 biographical account of a environmentalistDavid Brower‚writer John McPhee comments that for conservationists‚ there is something special about dams‚ "something-as conversation problems go-that is disproportionately and metaphysically sinister." McPhee continues: The outermost circle of the Devil’s world seems to be a moat filled mainly with DDT. Next to it is a moat of burning gasoline. Within
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History Period 4 Federalism Governments are a big part of many societies. There are many forms of governments and they are changing constantly to meet the proper needs of its people and to help things function as best possible. The United States‚ in the late 1700’s was doing just this. The United States Constitution was ratified by its ninth state and took effect on June 11th‚ 1788. This Constitution created a new type of government known as federalism. Federalism is a political system
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Federalism What’s Important? Focus on Power/Autonomy and Money The Supremacy Clause Article VI of the Constitution: The Constitution and the laws of the U.S. are the “supreme law of the land” Federalism—Key Questions * 1. What does the “Supremacy Clause” really mean? * 2. How much “power” does Congress (or the national government‚ generally) have‚ particularly to “regulate” interstate commerce under Article I‚ Section 8? * What “power(s)” do states on their own still
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government‚ known as federalism. The goal of federalism is to divide the power of state and federal governments‚ protect the rights of the state (through the 10th amendment)‚ prevent tyranny of the majority‚ and have a government that is close to its people. An example of federalism would be the freeways. They are owned and operated by the states‚ but the federal government sets down some basic guidelines that all states must follow and also provides funding. Federalism has certain advantages
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DAMS: GOOD OR BAD Introduction The unequal availability of resources leads to the development of methods to store them. Water as the prime resource for survival has been the determining factor for human settlements‚ been the sole reason for communities to thrive and for long formed the basis for wars. In locations where the appearance of rainfall is scanty and unreliable‚ the need to store water has given rise to the creation of ‘tankas’‚ creation of man-made lakes and similar reservoirs
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the word dam can be traced back to Middle English‚[1] and before that‚ from Middle Dutch‚ as seen in the names of many old cities.[2] Early dam building took place in Mesopotamia and the Middle East. Dams were used to control the water level‚ for Mesopotamia’s weather affected the Tigris and Euphrates rivers‚ and could be quite unpredictable. The earliest known dam is the Jawa Dam in Jordan‚ 100 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of the capital Amman. This gravity dam featured an originally 9 m (30 ft)
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