CANBERRA http://www.wholesalemax90china.com/ , March 16 (Xinhua) -- The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park will be free of dredge spoil dumping under groundbreaking draft laws proposed by Australia's Environment Minister.
On Monday, Greg Hunt told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that the ban he first announced in January would cover 99 percent of the World Heritage Area, which falls in the 345,000 square km marine park.
The remaining 1 percent is controlled by the Queensland government, which has already committed to introducing a ban on the dumping of dredge spoil.
"So in the end cheap air max 90 womens , 100 percent of the world heritage area will have a complete and permanent ban on capital dredge disposal and today we're putting in place that law for the marine park and that deals with past, present and future applications. It's a complete ban," Hunt said.
"It's groundbreaking, it's significant. It's a long time coming. At this moment in history we're taking steps I don't think will be reversed in next 100 years."
In June, the United Nations Educational cheap air max 90 mens , Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee is meeting to discuss whether the Great Barrier Reef on the list of world heritage sites in danger.
Hunt said he is confident that the world had seen the government's planning and "practical actions".
The proposal comes after significant protesting at the expansion of the Abbot Point coal port, located in mid-north Queensland, where environmental campaigners were fearful dredge spoil could impact the reef.
India's Mundra Port signed a 1.4 billion U.S. dollar 99-year lease for Australia's most northerly deepwater coal port, before announcing plans to expand the port's capacity by 70 percent to 85 million tons per year.
Last Wednesday, the Australian Marine Conservation Society called on Hunt and the Federal Government to "lift its game" and said more funding was needed to protect the world's largest coral reef system.
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TEHRAN cheap air max 90 , Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- A high-ranking Iranian military official said that the planned referendum on the Iraqi Kurdistan's independence would lead to a ""war and long-running insecurity"" in the region, Financial Tribune daily reported on Monday.
""Unfortunately, there is a new crisis brewing in the region. The foes of Muslims are harboring the secession of Iraq and Syria, something that would lead to war and long-running insecurity,"" Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi wholesale air max 90 shoes , a top military aide to Iran's supreme leader said.
""The four countries of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey are against this move because it would result in creation of separate regions that might be dependent on extra-territorial powers and foes of Islam,"" Safavi was quoted as saying.
The secession would be detrimental to the people of the region, he stressed.
Last month wholesale air max 90 mens , Chief of Staff of Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri said that the Islamic republic was against disintegration of Iraq.
Any changes in the political geography of Iraq, given the imminent independence referendum of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, could start tensions and conflicts inside and outside Iraq, Baqeri said.
Besides, Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri announced the country's opposition to the scheduled Iraqi Kurds' independence referendum.
Kurds' independence referendum ""is in line with the U.S. policy of dividing the regional countries wholesale air max 90 womens ,"" Jazayeri said, adding that ""Iran is definitely against it.""