Category Archives: Kyogle
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...
Frack Off – The Rig Gig – 23rd March – Lismore Workers Club
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
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...
Police arrived, Doubtful Creek Simmotron has four protectors manning i...
Police have arrived at Doubtful Creek. this morning, four Protectors are manning the simmotron. If you can get to DC please go now. The southern entrance via Ettrick / Kyogle is open.
Metgasco gives up – for now
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
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....
“ANU experience with Metgasco shows fossil fuels are a bad inves...
A GROUP of students was claiming victory on Tuesday after the Australian National University confirmed it had offloaded its remaining shares in gas mining company Metgasco. Vice-Chancellor Ian Young informed ANU Environm...
Doubtful Creek blockade locks on again
The blockade of Metgasco operations at Doubtful Creek near Kyogle continues today with a man attached to a “dragon” blocking passage of Metgasco sub contractors, Lucas Drilling. Around 100 local farmers and r...
Communities to celebrate three months of sustained peaceful protest ag...
Local communities and CSG free groups that have sustained the Doubtful Ck blockade will scale down the action at the site following yesterday’s announcement by Metgasco that drilling work has been completed. The drill ri...
Coal Seam Gas development angers opponents
The federal government has approved stage one of a major Coal Seam Gas development near Newcastle in New South Wales. Opponents of coal seam gas have reacted with anger. Further north, applications to prospect are still ...
The Fight for Doubtful Creek – Feb 2013
Extended clip showing arrests, including Lock the Gate President Drew Hutton, on the day the Metgasco rig arrived at Doubtful Creek, plus new footage of Xavier Rudd and hundreds of others united against CSG at the protes...
Rocking CSG bandwagon
THE atmosphere was cheery despite occasional drizzly weather as performers Xavier Rudd, Ash Grunwald, Diana Anaid, Nathan Clearly, Andrea Soler, and Lil’ Fi took to a stage erected with a direct line of sight to a ...
CSG protest set to music
ROOTS and blues musicians Xavier Rudd and Ash Grunwald will be rocking a concert a few hundred metres from the Doubtful Creek CSG protest site this Saturday morning. The two performers are lending their support to the CS...
Guerilla tactics at CSG blockade
A LONE coal-seam gas protester created havoc for police yesterday after locking his arm in the ground to block a convoy of semi-trailers from entering Metgasco’s Doubtful Creek drilling site. The protester, Matt Gr...
CSG protests ramp up
As 18 anti coal-seam gas (CSG) protesters arrested at the Glenugie blockade last month face Grafton court today, around 30 more protesters were holding up mining-operation vehicles at the frontline in the battle against ...
Doubt Full creek lock on protest underway
UPDATE 1.45PM: POLICE rescue officers have been unable to remove protestor Matt Graham from his blockade installation device which is preventing vehicles entering Metgasco’s Doubtful Creek site. Police, who spent a...
Both sides of CSG dig in for a long and determined fight
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...