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Another CSG Company Fined Pocket Change Over Breaches
Arrow (Daandine) has been fined $40,000 for breaches of Queensland’s petroleum and gas laws. The penalties relate to five breaches that occurred on the Daandine Homestead property, west of Dalby, between June 2, 2008 and January 23, 2010. The breaches were not related to a separate incident on the same property on May 22, 2011 [...]
Lock The Gate Alliance moves to resolve conflict
THE Lock the Gate Alliance has unveiled its program to resolve the conflict in Queensland over the social and environmental impacts of coal and coal seam gas mining and called on Labor and the LNP to adopt policies to address those. Lock the Gate Alliance president Drew Hutton said the LNP especially needed to show [...]
Dr Helen Redmond on Health and Coal Seam Gas Extraction
Dr Helen Redmond – Doctors for the Environment – who talks about the impacts of coal-seam gas water contaminants and the impacts on human health. http://dea.org.au/resources/file/dr_helen_redmond_on_health_and_coal_seam_gas_extraction
On schedule?
In this weeks Chinchilla News, QGC has a two page update on the QGLNG Project. QGC claim the ‘Weiambilla Rd Project- connecting 5 wells to processing plant at the Kenya Gas Plant, has progressed on schedule, with wet weather being the only interruption. How can QGC claim they are still on schedule, when it was [...]
Coincidence or NOT?
You would think that the Government would be alarmed about all these coincidences in the gas project areas. We have residents in gas field areas, with the same symptoms as those who are dying in the gas fields in the U.S, we have Dugongs dropping dead for no apparent reason- While the cause of death [...]
Fraser Coast community halts coal mine
The Queensland Government has rejected the application for a coal mine near the Aldershot community, near Maryborough, in a move that will give encouragement to all communities in Queensland fighting similar proposals for open cut coal mining. Friends of the Earth spokesperson Drew Hutton said the Aldershot and District Against Mining group had strongly opposed [...]
New York Tries to Deal with Radioactive Drilling Waste from Marcellus Shale
As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about the wastewater created by the process: It’s radioactive. And they have yet to say how they’ll deal with it. by Abrahm Lustgarten The information comes from New York’s Department [...]
Submissions are due.
This is a 606 page, 41.9 MB document entitled “Kenya Area-Environmental Authority Amendment Application” “QGC has lodged an amendment application for Environmental Authority PEN100020207, under the Environmental Protection Act 1994. The amendment is to include a Water Treatment Plant and a discharge permit for treated water into Wieambilla Creek on the petroleum tenures of [...]
Fracking With Food: How the Natural Gas Industry Poisons Cows and Crops
Natural gas drilling operations have mucked up food from Colorado to Pennsylvania. So why is no one paying attention? On the morning of May 5, 2010, nobody could say for sure how much fluid had leaked from the 650,000-gallon disposal pit near a natural gas drill pad in Shippen Township, Penn. — not the employees [...]
Sacred Water
A short film The Unfractured Future brings Native voices to the forefront of an urgent issue in New York State. The natural gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing threatens our water and our future.