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Gasfield Community Support Group
As our support group grows, so to do our concerns!!! It now appears there are more and more clusters of families who are experiencing health impacts. Impacts that are all consistant with living in and around gas infrastructure. Symptoms include: nosebleeds, headaches, respitory problems, skin rashes, just to name a few. Another symptom that seems to be [...]
Shame QGC shame!!!
The one day of the year when QGC should have made sure its employees/contractors did not work, and yet what did i see on Anzac Day- QGC contractors working on the pipeline! This is utterly discraceful!!! The most important Day in our history, and QGC could not even show a bit of respect for our Diggers!!! [...]
QGC has NO respect for residents!
We have requested QGC halt their maintenance work in the Kate block of the Tara Estates on Good Friday, out of respect for those in our community. Here is the letter i have sent to QGC’s Tony Heidrich: ATTENTION: Tony Heidrich I am formally requesting QGC halt their maintenance work at the Kate block in [...]
Maintenance: Workover Rigs in Tara Estates
After finding out earlier in the week that QGC intends to conduct ‘routine’ maintenance: involving workover rigs on the gas wells in Kate block in the Tara Estate, we became concerned. Our families have already been impacted by previous CSG activities, and after the gas well blow out near Dalby last year, also while undertaking [...]
More and more landowners are speaking out about difficulties dealing with CSG companies!
CSG Challenge heads to Supreme court. http://qcl.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and-general/general/csg-challenge-heads-for-supreme-court/2496421.aspx?storypage=0 Farmers sound the warning as CSG frustration builds! LEO Bahnisch said he wanted to send a “loud and clear” statement when he wrapped a steel chain around his front access gate and padlocked it shut early last month.He said he had long tired of enduring ongoing battles [...]
CSG challenge heads for Supreme Court
AN ELEVENTH hour decision by State Mining Minister Stirling Hinchliffe to approve a Part Five Permission application lodged by coal seam gas company QGC to force a landholder to provide resource sector employees access to his cattle property at Eidsvold is set to be challenged in the Supreme Court. Mr Hinchliffe’s decision has over [...]
CSG Employees/Contractors- A menace on our roads!
The afternoon of Friday 16th March could have been a horrific day for several drivers just outside of Chinchilla. A Kelly Group vehicle (A contractor of one of QGC’s contracors)was driving in a dangerous manner, tailgating not only my vehicle as i headed to Chinchilla to pick up my children,but the QGC vehicle in front of me. [...]
Walking 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 [...]