Cowal and Bute (shinty) Cowal peninsula. At present there is no male team representing Dunoon in national shinty although there is a youth system in the town. Cowal and Bute (shinty) Cowal and Bute Camanachd is a shinty club based in Dunoon, Cowal, Scotland. The club fields a side in the Women's League and is the only shinty team at adult level operating in Dunoon. The club was founded in 2003 and plays in Dunoon, there has historically not been shinty played in the town of Dunoon but the hinterland of the Cowal peninsula plays host to several illustrious clubs with male sides Kyles
Lake Cowal by various Australian environmentalist groups who formed the "Coalition to Protect Lake Cowal" initiated by the Rainforest Information Centre and Friends of the Earth Australia. The only barrier between the lake and the open pit would be an earth wall or bund. Tailings would be stored in dams 3.5 km from the lake. Water would be supplied from a bore in the Bland Creek Paleochannel borefield, 20 km east of the mine site and will use up to 17 megalitres per day. " Don't desecrate our dreaming site, don't mine our sacred site. I have fought Barrick in the courts