Western Downs AllianceCSG 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 [...]
Police use aggressive tactics against Lock the Gate protesters
Members of the anti-CSG group Keep the Scenic Rim Scenic have been subjected to much more aggressive tactics from police at blockades this morning. The blockade at Kerry continued into its eighth day this morning and protesters opened up a new front at an Arrow Energy drill site at Silverdale on the Cunningham Highway. [...]
Gasfield Community Support Group
For those people who are impacted, or are stressed by CSG operations in the area, PLEASE contact our support group. I am available to talk to, to discuss impacts etc, contact me-Debbi: 07 46653999 or email: gasfieldcommunitysupportgroup@hotmail.com If you are feeling depressed and feel you may harm yourself or others, PLEASE seek help! Call the LIFELINE suicide [...]
Update from the Kerry Blockade
via Ali Dee and Heidi Ross Update from the Kerry blockade … huge police presence this morning including tactical response units. Police used move on orders to break the blockade, with one arrest. Unfortunately that means drilling did occur today – for the first time in five days. Blockade morale/resolve was boosted by the [...]