Category Archives: Casino

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Frack Off – The Rig Gig – 23rd March – Lismore Workers Club

March 17 Australia, Casino, Grafton, Kyogle, Lismore, Lock the Gate, Metgasco, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

A chance to celebrate this wonderful fast growing movement; dance and let your hair down or just chill out and enjoy great music with fellow defenders of our environment. Featuring: Marshall Okell & the Pride, Hussy ...

Industry shocked, Greens jubilant, about Metgasco decision

March 14 Australia, Casino, Kyogle, Lismore, Lock the Gate, Metgasco, News, Northern Rivers, NSW, World no comments

Metgasco’s share price fell more than 21 per cent yesterday, closing at 7.3 cents a share, following the company announcing it will suspend its activities in northern NSW. The peak body for the coal seam gas indust...

Metgasco gives up – for now

March 13 ALERTS, Australia, Casino, Grafton, Impacts-NSW, Kyogle, Lismore, Metgasco, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

METGASCO is shutting up shop on the Northern Rivers, saying exclusion zones announced by the NSW Government created an “uncertain operating environment”. Metgasco boss Peter Henderson is expected to address t...

Farmers call for support from local council for Doubtful Ck blockade

March 11 Australia, Casino, Kyogle, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

Local farmers who have been strong supporters of the Doubtful Ck anti-CSG blockade have gone public in an attempt to clear up false reports circulating in recent weeks about the impact of the blockade on local residents....

Pressure building over fracking sites

March 9 Australia, Casino, Lock the Gate, Metgasco, Northern Rivers, NSW, QLD, World no comments

The fracking boom has created uncertainty for landowners. Photo: Rob Homer THE boom in fracking has blanketed vast tracts of the country in oil and gas exploration permits, creating uncertainty for landholders who often ...

Study shows CSG fields leaking at greater rate

March 7 Australia, Casino, Impacts-QLD, Lismore, News, Northern Rivers, NSW, QLD, World no comments

A new study has found coal seam gas (CSG) fields on southern Queensland’s Darling Downs are leaking at a greater rate than first thought. A team of Lismore-based scientists at the Southern Cross University tested f...

Both sides of CSG dig in for a long and determined fight

February 10 Australia, Casino, Kyogle, Lock the Gate, News, Northern Rivers, NSW, World no comments

AFTER two significant blockades in 2013, the conflict over CSG on the Northern Rivers looks set to become a war of attrition. Metgasco has comprehensive approvals for its current exploration wells and a legal right to co...

Hardy protesters stand firm as CSG rig is ready to move

February 1 Australia, Casino, Kyogle, Metgasco, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

DESPITE horrendous weather over the past few days, a determined group of anti-CSG activists and local farmers have continued to maintain a vigil at Metgasco’s next predicted drilling site at Doubtful Creek, south-w...

ORANGE ALERT – Doubtful Creek Metgasco Drilling

January 25 Australia, Casino, Grafton, Kyogle, Lock the Gate, Metgasco, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

ORANGE ALERT UPDATE 3.00pm Friday 25th for Glenugie and Doubtful Creek Kyogle, Metgasco sites: Drilling finished at Glenugie. Rig could move anytime in next 24 hours. Probably heading to Doubtful Creek. Actions likely at...

Mud spills in CSG drill ‘spud’ spin

January 18 Australia, Casino, Grafton, Impacts-NSW, Kyogle, Lock the Gate, Metgasco, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

An eagle-eyed local is alleging that coal seam gas mining company Metgasco has made false representations to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) regarding its drilling operations at Glenugie. In Metgasco’s ASX anno...

Protestors blockade new Metgasco CSG site

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

MORE THAN forty anti-CSG activists have rallied at the entrance of Eden Creek State Forest, after work started this morning to complete a drilling pad for Metgasco’s coal seam gas production. Metgasco has conf...

Action Alert: Numbers are needed at Glenugie from now onwards

January 4 ALERTS, Casino, Grafton, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

The ongoing peaceful protest at Glenugie needs your support from now onwards! It is clear that they will attempt to move the rig and associated  equipment some time in the next few days! There will be a large police pres...

International court challenge over CSG mining

January 2 Australia, Casino, Grafton, Kyogle, Metgasco, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

Hans Lovejoy Githabul Indigenous people living around Kyogle are planning a legal challenge in an international court if necessary against their own to dissolve the Githabul Nation Aboriginal Corporation (GNAC), which th...

International court challenge over CSG mining

January 2 Australia, Casino, Grafton, Kyogle, Metgasco, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

Hans Lovejoy Githabul Indigenous people living around Kyogle are planning a legal challenge in an international court if necessary against their own to dissolve the Githabul Nation Aboriginal Corporation (GNAC), which th...

Northern Rivers Metgasco Drill Sites – help needed

December 31 ALERTS, Australia, Casino, Grafton, Kyogle, Lismore, Lock the Gate, News, Northern Rivers, NSW no comments

The fight of our lives, for our lives continues on the Northern Rivers. Community minded people are on the ground defending land at a Metgasco drill site near Grafton – Glenugie. And two other locations are set to ...