Category Archives: NSW

Party fund-raiser ‘disguised as law course’

June 10 Australia, News, NSW, World no comments

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

May 29 Australia, Casino, Lismore, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

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 ...

Groundwater gas sampling will give CSG a baseline

May 16 Australia, Impacts-NSW, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

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 ...

May 6 Australia, Casino, Kyogle, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

North Coast Voices  When you live like this why would you hold back from assisting Metgasco Limited to turn sections of the Northern Rivers into 1,000 well-strong coal seam gas fields?  Trevor Charles St Baker and variou...

Coal seam gas puts people at risk

May 5 Australia, News, NSW, World no comments

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...

Enough is Enough! QLDers man the blockades!

April 27 News, NSW, QLD no comments

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

April 24 Australia, Impacts-NSW, News, NSW, QLD no comments

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...

Metgasco moves out!

April 18 Australia, Casino, Kyogle, Metgasco, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

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

April 15 Australia, Casino, Kyogle, Metgasco, News, Northern Rivers, NSW, World no comments

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...

CSG no-go zones ‘essential’

April 11 Australia, Lock the Gate, News, NSW, NT, QLD, South Australia, Tas no comments

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

April 10 Australia, Casino, Metgasco, News, Northern Rivers, NSW, World no comments

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...

Church fears the impact of mining

April 9 News, NSW no comments

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...

Halt CSG exploration, NSW opposition says

April 3 Australia, News, NSW, Politics no comments

THE NSW opposition has urged the O’Farrell government to halt coal seam gas (CSG) exploration on agricultural land after a poll showed most NSW voters oppose it. In a statement on Wednesday, NSW Opposition Leader J...

CSG pull out shows value of a social licence

April 2 Australia, News, NSW, QLD no comments

The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today said the suspension of coal seam gas operations in NSW by Dart Energy and Planet Gas showed that gaining a social licence is important for business and cannot...

Coal seam gas fails on human health

April 2 Australia, Impacts-NSW, Impacts-QLD, News, NSW, QLD, World no comments

Doctors’ organisation agrees CSG assessment and monitoring is badly flawed and does not protect human health Doctors agree with arguments aired in last night’s ABC Four Corners program “Gas Leak”, that assessment a...

Gas Leak – 4 Corners ABCTV

April 2 Australia, News, NSW, QLD no comments

The coal seam gas industry promotes itself as a cleaner carbon-fuel alternative; but how do we know this is true? Until now much of the information used to back this claim has come from the industry itself. The problem i...

Dart Energy slashes costs amid CSG changes

April 2 Australia, News, NSW, QLD no comments

DART Energy will slash 70 per cent of its workforce as it reins in costs in response to tighter government restrictions on coal seam gas projects. Dart will suspend its field operations in NSW and focus on its overseas C...

Show of support for Gloucester farmers

March 31 Australia, News, NSW, World no comments

Gloucester is calling on the wider Hunter community to show its support for the farming area in its fight against mining and coal seam gas, by turning out for this weekend’s show. The Gloucester Show gets underway ...

Manmade lakes to hold water from coal seam gas wells

March 27 Australia, Impacts-NSW, Mid North Coast, News, NSW, Pilliga no comments

Artificial lakes will be dug out of the arid soil of the Pilliga district, in north-western NSW, to hold millions of litres of contaminated water from coal seam gas wells. Gas company Santos plans to drill several hundre...

Gas Leak!

March 27 Australia, Impacts-NSW, News, NSW no comments

By Matthew Carney and Connie Aguis Updated March 27, 2013 17:25:00 It’s been sold as the cleaner-greener carbon fuel but is coal seam gas as clean as it claims… Monday 1 April 2013 The coal seam gas industry ...