Western Downs AllianceWalking For A Future
June Norman, great grandmother aged 71 years is in the process of walking from Dalby to Gladstone following the coal seam gas pipeline and the coal train corridor. June Norman is concerned about the future she is leaving her grandchildren and is keen to connect with communities affected by these industries. “I’ve seen the impacts [...]
PEHSU Information Concerning Effects on Children of Natural Gas Extraction and Hydraulic Fracturing
PEHSU Information on Natural Gas Extraction and Hydraulic Fracturing for Health Professionals The Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) Network encourage families, pediatricians, and communities to work together to ensure that children are protected from exposure to environmental hazards. Background Natural gas extraction from shale is a complex process which includes: 1) building [...]
The Australian Coal Seam Gas Industry: Dirty, Deceptive, Corrupt
Australian government officials are being payed to leave their jobs in environmental protection to work for coal seam gas companies who are currently causing environmental destruction in QLD. How did this happen? As was widely reported last year the Department of Environment and Management (DERM) granted an environmental approval allowing Origin Energy to discharge the [...]
CSG Cowboys on our roads
Since CSG has come to our area, there have been many near misses on our roads with industry cowboys thinking they own our roads, and info received from an ex CSG employee claims that it is procedure for CSG vehicles to drive with their lights on and in the middle of the road, and not to [...]
LNG boom fizzles as costs bite
Just a few years after it started, Australia’s liquefied natural gas bonanza may be drawing to a close, throttled by swelling costs, tightening credit and mounting foreign competition to supply Asian buyers. New Australian projects have been getting approved at a furious pace, with six kicked off in the past 18 months. About $180 billion [...]
Scientific experts examine coal seam gas impacts
The Federal Environment Minister has appointed an interim committee of scientific experts to look into the coal seam gas and coal mining industries. The six member committee will look at the impacts of CSG on regional communities, with a particular emphasis on water use and the environment. The committee is a result of New South [...]
Experts deliver dire warnings about fracking impacts
Hundreds of people packed a lecture hall at Ohio University Saturday to hear some fairly dire warnings on what could happen to Athens County if the oil-and-gas industry begins to drill into deep underground shale beds here using the horizontal hydraulic fracturing method (“fracking”). Calvin Tillman, former mayor of a town that has been through [...]
Tourism body backs fracking fight
A state tourism body is backing a protest group in its fight against an energy company in the Scenic Rim, south-west of Brisbane. The Queensland Tourism Industry Council (QTIC) says it supports the campaign by Keep The Scenic Rim Scenic for independent scrutiny of Arrow Energy’s operations. The two groups have been involved in a [...]
Analysts Turn On Australian Coal Seam Gas.
By David Rogers Coal seam gas, or CSG, is attracting its fair share of criticism in Australia. Now, even the analysts are pitching in. Citigroup says the controversial method of extracting gas is proving a headache for AGL Energy in New South Wales, or NSW, as its ability to pursue its exploration program in the [...]
CSG companies on notice!
Its time for ALL CSG companies to take note! All CSG operations are fair game in our campaign of non-violent civil resistance to protect our future! Miner warned as CSG action spreads in Qld Activists have warned a mining company none of its coal seam gas (CSG) sites are safe from protest action. Protest action [...]