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Farmers call for national fund to protect against coal seam gas TueTuesday 23 updated WedWednesday 24 FebFebruary 2021 at 1:15am Zena and Gary Ronnfeldt have refused to allow gas development on their farm, but all around them there are gas wells and pipelines. ( Share Print text only Cancel A group of Queensland farmers say they can t get adequate insurance and are calling for a national compensation fund to be set up to protect landholders from possible future claims relating to coal seam gas. Key points: A group of Queensland farmers are calling for a new levy on the gas industry to fund a national scheme to protect against impacts of coal seam gas ....
Enterprise file photo Patrick Thomas, an Altamont resident and village police officer, is also a member of Altamont’s Police Reform Committee. The committee is due to have a meeting on Thursday, Feb. 18. ALTAMONT Many of the reform requirements Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered of municipal law-enforcement agencies have not been an issue for the small Altamont Police Department, said its chief, Todd Pucci, because a number the reforms are meant to address the racial disparities between the police and communities they serve, “and we really don’t have that [issue] in our village.” In May of last year, George Floyd, a Black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on a restrained Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes. The death sparked nationwide protests, including many in New York State, and led Cuomo in June to issue an executive order requiring police departments across the state to reform and reinvent themselves. ....
Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email The Forgotten People Fighting the Forever War A devastating incident in Afghanistan shows the perils of relying on Special Operations alone to fight the nation’s battles. Both the Trump and Obama administrations relied heavily on highly trained Special Forces units to keep Afghanistan from collapse. The strategy has kept recent episodes of the 21-year Afghan War out of the public eye, but it is failing to stabilize the country and is straining the United States military’s elite troops, who serve back-to-back combat tours without an end in sight and disproportionately give their lives in service of a war the public knows almost nothing about. ....
Last February, Fr. Lenin Vargas was indicted on 10 counts of wire fraud in the Northern District of Mississippi. In July, the Diocese of Jackson, which was also being investigated for its alleged inaction, agreed to tighten its financial controls under a deal it reached with the feds. (Dreamstime/Djedzura) Fr. Lenin Vargas request for money seemed more fitting for a spam email than from a Catholic priest. From 2014 until 2018, Vargas allegedly solicited funds from parishioners at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Starkville, Mississippi, where he was the pastor, for what he claimed were expenses for his cancer treatment and for charities in his native country of Mexico. But according to a federal indictment, there was no cancer treatment. Vargas had HIV and his medical expenses were covered by his employer, the Diocese of Jackson. Still, Vargas was able to raise over $33,000. ....