Santos confirms uncontrolled leak at oil and gas well in Que...
AN EXCLUSION zone has been set up around an oil well in southern Queensland, which has been leaking about 50,000 litres ...
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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 tyre...
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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...
CSG protest cost revealed in NSW Parliament
IT cost tens of thousands of dollars to have the police presence at protests sites of Metgasco’s Northern Rivers coal seam gas operations, reveals new information published on the NSW Parliament Website. Answers to...
Woodside Shelves gas plant at James Price Point
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard insists the investment phase of Australia’s resources boom is yet to peak despite the dumping of a $45 billion liquefied natural gas project. While shareholders have applauded Woodside ...
CSG no-go zones ‘essential’
WITH public submissions closing this Friday on the NSW government’s plans to introduce a two kilometre residential exclusion zone for coal seam gas (CSG) developments, it’s time for an urgent reassessment of CSG policy i...
Environment Centre opens in Casino Gasfields
A new Environment centre has been opened in Casino, right in the middle of the coal seam gas mining areas of Metgasco and Dart Energy. The newly established Casino Environment Centre opened it’s doors this week. Op...
Submissions needed on CSG Exclusion Zones: Due April 12th
The NSW government has released a draft of proposed amendments to the Mining State Environmental Planning Policy (Mining SEPP) to implement CSG exclusion zones. The draft is now on exhibition for public feedback until Fr...
Church fears the impact of mining
RELIGION has entered the debate on the region’s resources boom, as the Uniting Church prepares to take its concerns to a state gathering in Sydney next week. The New England North West Presbytery of The Uniting Church ha...