Great Artesian Basin Protection Group

Gasland is a film of ‘‘direct relevance for Australia as we are faced with the consequences of a coal-seam gas rush.’’
‘‘This is a huge issue because once you’ve contaminated an aquifer you can’t go back.’’

There’s one other point Fox is keen to make: it’s not just the water that’s the issue, it’s also the emissions. Methane, a key component of the gas produced, is up to 72 times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2, and it is emitted all along the production path as well as when it is burnt.

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NSW Greens Upper House MP Cate Faehrmann has again called for a moratorium on coal seam gas exploration in the state during a protest against the industry in Sydney. Ms Faehrmann’s call comes after a contamination scare on Tuesday in which a cancer-causing agent was found in three coal seam gas wells owned by Arrow […]

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US doco sparks gas debate

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Click the play button below to listen to the article [audio:bst_20101104_0747.mp3] Click the play button above to listen to the article The race is on in Queensland to establish the world’s first coal seam gas (CSG) to liquefied natural gas export market, despite growing concern about the long-term environmental impacts of a CSG boom.

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AN ENVIRONMENTAL lobby group says Queensland faces great environmental risks from the world’s first coal seam gas to LNG project. BG Group has given final investment approval for the first stage of the Curtis LNG Project in the state’s southwest. It committed $15 billion to the project, which includes building a liquefied natural gas plant […]

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His concern was the depletion of aquifers through the CSG extraction process.

“We’ve had a drought for 10 years. Are we going to create another one?” he said.

Friends of the Earth spokesman Drew Hutton said farmers were facing irreversible damage to the Great Artesian Basin.

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THE weight of scientific evidence fuelling landholder claims that coal seam gas extraction poses a real and serious threat to important freshwater aquifers is becoming harder for the Queensland Government to ignore. But ignoring the point it is, and despite a mountain of assurances to the contrary, the Queensland Government continues finding ways to avoid […]

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