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Concerns over Queensland’s coal seam gas project
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.
Gas project criticism heats up
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 […]
Queensland farmers vow to lock out coal seam gas drillers from their properties
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.
Evidence supports CSG freeze on Downs
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 […]
CSG Projects must be abandoned
ALL coal seam gas projects throughout Australia must be abandoned immediately as a matter of urgency. The very act of drilling has produced sinister results at every site and if state governments continue to ignore the grave consequences of drilling, Australia stands to lose prime farming land while simultaneously contaminating our waterways and running the […]
Surat cancer scare rocks CSG projects
Environmentalists are calling for a moratorium on coal seam gas projects after another contamination at a Queensland site. Australia Pacific LNG reported yesterday that chemicals had been detected in eight exploration wells in the Surat Basin in the state’s west.
BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene) is the same chemical group that infiltrated Cougar Energy’s underground coal gasification site in Kingaroy earlier this year.
MP urges independent testing of coal gas wells
Queensland Opposition MP Ray Hopper says he has no faith in the self-regulation process used to assess water quality at coal seam gas (CSG) mines. Environmentalists and residents have repeated calls to end CSG gas extraction after another water contamination scare at a mine west of Miles in Queensland’s southern inland. Traces of banned carcinogenic […]
Origin stops coal seam gas drilling after chemicals found in water
Farmers near a coal seam gas ”fracking” site in Queensland will have their water supplies tested for toxic benzene and other chemicals today after Origin Energy found contaminated water near drilling sites.
The discovery of BTEX – a mixture of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene – around eight coal seam gas wells near Miles, west of Brisbane, marks the first time a resources company has admitted to contaminating water at a fracking site.
Claims of illnesses and cover-up as D-day looms for coal seam gas projects
One resident said people had been forced to leave their properties because of stress and related illnesses, including nose bleeds, nausea and vomiting.
Rural lobby group Agforce yesterday mirrored calls for a moratorium on coal seam gas development until better protection was afforded to food production.