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Related: Great Barrier Reef in dire straits without extra $500m and ban on dumping Labor's new plan removes millions of dollars in taxpayer support for dredging at Abbot Point, while requiring that seabed to be dumped onshore next to the port instead of in sensitive wetlands or in reef waters.

In February, the authority approved a permit to dump 3m cubic metres of dredged seabed within the marine park while Grayson and Mooney were still under investigation by the probity inquiry.

The four projects have been opposed by environmental groups for a variety of reasons, including fears of damage to the reef caused by increased shipping and dumping dredged seabed near the world heritage-listed site.

After a decade in which "eastern Europe" seemed to have little in common but anti-communism, the energy plans and the anti-missile shield suggest that a new regional co-operation might be stirring.If so, that is partly in response to a pipeline that Russia and Germany are planning to lay on the Baltic seabed to pump gas directly from one to the other, circumventing the pesky countries in between.

The two are at opposite ends of a furious debate over energy security and relations with Russia.The haste with which Mr Schröder hopped from the chancellery to chair the shareholders' committee of the Nord Stream pipeline, planned to run on the Baltic seabed, reflects both his own views (he once called Vladimir Putin a "flawless democrat") and his party's longstanding policies.

They are already pioneering exploration in neglected spots such as the seabed off West Africa and in the Arctic.

In the long run, however, they may prove valuable to countries like Japan and India with few energy sources on land.For many countries, though, the first booty from any newly acquired seabed will be either oil or gas, both of which can now be extracted fairly easily from deep water.

The sand is then brought to Dubai and sprayed in a giant arc onto the shallow (10.5 meter) seabed off the coast.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has a vehicle that can reach depths of 11km.Apart from the Russians, the only company mining the seabed at present is De Beers, which gathers diamonds off the coasts of Namibia and South Africa.

A consequence is that Japan is unable to take any regional initiative (over the environment, for instance, or energy use) at the very time it is seeking international "normalisation".The scratching of historical scabs has also inflamed the many island and seabed disputes in the seas dividing Japan from China and South Korea.

All over the world, oil spills regularly contaminate coasts.Special report Troubled waters Scramble for the seabed The curse of carbon More abused than used Plenty more fish in the sea?