Category Archives: QLD

Santos confirms uncontrolled leak at oil and gas well in Queensland...

May 23 Impacts-QLD, News, QLD no comments

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

May 22 Australia, Impacts-QLD, News, QLD, World no comments

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’ ...

Video: Gasfield Realities – Water and Human Suffering

May 17 Impacts-QLD, News, QLD no comments

Gasfield Realities 1 – Water and Human Suffering Gasfield Realities 2 Community Divisions and the failure of QLD Health

Landholders rally to save Darling Downs from CSG

April 27 Australia, News, QLD no comments

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!

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...

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...

CSG is criminal: Mayor

April 4 Australia, Impacts-NSW, QLD no comments

RICHMOND Mayor John Wharton has labelled coal seam gas mining ‘so wrong it’s criminal’. The regional Mayor said yesterday he often found himself at odds with the Australian Greens over the years but in ...

Landholders call for urgent inquiry into coal seam gas

April 3 Australia, News, QLD no comments

Calls for an inquiry into the coal seam gas industry are mounting after a former Queensland Government bureaucrat spoke out about serious flaws in the approval process for major projects. Senior environmental specialist ...

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...

CSG firms snap up top public servants with links to Premier

April 1 Australia, Impacts-QLD, News, QLD no comments

GLADSTONE’S LNG projects have snapped up top talent from Queensland’s public service who are now working for companies in the coal seam gas industry. News Ltd reports public servants who did much of the key a...

Health risks for communities living near CSG activities

March 22 Australia, Lock the Gate, News, QLD no comments

The National Toxics Network (NTN) and Lock the Gate (LTG) coalition are calling on federal and state governments to take urgent action to protect the health of all communities living around coal seam gas (CSG) fields aft...

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 ...

Drew Hutton of Lock the Gate launches ‘Call to Country’

March 8 Lock the Gate, News, Northern Rivers, NSW, QLD no comments

THE issue of coal seam gas has the potential to influence the outcome of the federal election, the president of the Lock The Gate Alliance says. Drew Hutton was in Canberra on Thursday to launch the LTGA’s federal ...

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...

Public servants tasked with approving massive CSG projects were blinds...

February 11 Australia, Impacts-QLD, News, QLD, World no comments

PUBLIC servants working in the last days of the Bligh government say they felt pressured to give major CSG projects the green light. TWO of Queensland’s largest resources projects were approved by public servants p...

CSG water may pose risk to coast: experts

December 27 Australia, Impacts-NSW, Impacts-QLD, News, NSW, QLD no comments

Fish and other ocean life may face risks associated with coal seam gas mining, say scientists exploring the link between groundwater and coastal life. Ten years after they discovered groundwater on the Australian mainlan...