Leave coal and gas in ground, scientists urge government
Ben Cubby Sydney Morning Herald Most of Australia’s coal reserves will have to be left unburned if the world is to avoid...
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Leave coal and gas in ground, scientists urge government
Ben Cubby Sydney Morning Herald Most of Australia’s coal reserves will have to be left unburned if the world is to avoid catastrophic global...
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Leave coal and gas in ground, scientists urge government
Ben Cubby Sydney Morning Herald Most of Australia’s coal reserves will have to be left unburned if the world is to avoid catastrophic global warming, according to a major new report from the federal government’s Climate ...
Party fund-raiser ‘disguised as law course’
Sydney Morning Herald The National Party has been accused of disguising a $770-a-head campaign fund-raiser as a professional development course that NSW lawyers are compelled to attend to renew their certificate. Speaker...
Gas investors unlikely to touch Lismore again says expert
Northern Star A STRONG gas industry might one day develop in New South Wales, but one of Queensland’s top gas experts reckons it will never come back to Casino. When the full force of public opinion railed against ...
Shine Lawyers reveals CSG company tactics to access your land
To prepare NSW cotton growers for future dealings with Coal Seam Gas (CSG) companies, we wanted to reveal the common tactics used by CSG companies when dealing with landholders in negotiating access to properties during ...
Report damns CSG health effects
Stock and Land ON THE back of damning report released this week about the potential health effects on communities across Australia from coal and coal seam gas projects, doctors have called for urgent national reforms. Th...
Santos confirms uncontrolled leak at oil and gas well in Queensland...
AN EXCLUSION zone has been set up around an oil well in southern Queensland, which has been leaking about 50,000 litres a day for almost a week. Santos today confirmed it discovered the leak in their Jackson oil fields, ...
Protesters clash with gas workers at Tara
John McCarthy Herald Sun TARA residents have clashed with QGC’s coal seam gas employees outside a work camp, with claims that car tyres were slashed and punches thrown. The so-called ‘Tara blockies’ ...
Moorabool signs moratorium on coal seam gas
MOORABOOL council has joined a collective push for a moratorium on all coal seam gas mining and new coal operations in the state, almost a year after lobbying by concerned residents. See your ad here In an emotionally ch...
Video: Gasfield Realities – Water and Human Suffering
Gasfield Realities 1 – Water and Human Suffering Gasfield Realities 2 Community Divisions and the failure of QLD Health
Groundwater gas sampling will give CSG a baseline
Hamish Broome Northern Star SOUTHERN Cross University scientists are giving land-owners the opportunity to have their bore water sampled for methane as “insurance” against potential future impacts of the CSG ...
Tara Surge
Stop CSG Tara has been forced to take action against QGC/BG Group after continued mishandling of residents legitimate concerns regarding Health and environmental authority breaches. Our actions will include gas field tou...
Movie: Heritage Fight
There are still some clean places on earth, but for how long ? Broome is located in the far remote Kimberley region, which is the last great Wilderness of Australia. This is where Colin Barnett, Premier of Western Austra...
Coal seam gas puts people at risk
By Iain Fyfe Yass Tribune The Coal Seam Gas invasion is another startling example of where the future well-being of the community is being willingly sacrificed for quick bucks. This grab for a non-renewable fossil fuel i...
Landholders rally to save Darling Downs from CSG
MORE than 400 landholders and concerned citizens have gathered among the vast cotton and sorghum fields at Cecil Plains today to show support for local farmers who have spent more than five years opposing proposed coal s...
Enough is Enough! QLDers man the blockades!
Landholders of the Cameby Concerned Citizens group today slammed the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection as a “failed agency”, declaring “enough is enough” in response to the DEHP’s approval of a revised QG...
Gas industry has itself to thank for higher prices
Coal seam gas protesters shouldn’t be blamed for rising gas prices in Australia – for that, the gas industry can thank only itself, writes Matt Grudnoff. The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration As...
Report claims mines ‘downplay’ environmental and health co...
A new report claims mining companies routinely exaggerate the economic and social benefits of projects, while downplaying the impact on health and the environment. Economists at Large was commissioned by the Nature Conse...
Metgasco moves out!
Mining giant Metgasco is about to begin the process of shutting down its operations in the Northern Rivers, a month after announcing it was suspending exploration. It involves shutting down its wells and returning the la...