Media Releases
NSW Government reviewing CSG royalty payments
January 07, 2012
The recent announcement by the NSW Government that they are reviewing the legislation that gives coal seam gas companies a 5 year royalty free period and sees them not paying the full royalty payments until the tenth year of production is cautiously welcomed by...
Read MoreConservation Groups under Federal Government Surveillance
January 07, 2012
Lock the Gate Alliance says that today's revelations today that Martin Ferguson has been pushed by the energy industry to increase surveillance of environmental activists, is more evidence that the fossil fuel sector is really running Australia. "Once again the federal government has demonstrated...
Read MoreRestrictions on wind farms should also apply to coal and coal seam gas
December 26, 2011
Tough restrictions on wind farms announced by the New South Wales government should also apply to coal seam gas and coal. The restrictions announced by NSW Planning Minister Brad Hazzard give a veto to anyone living within a 2 kilometre radius of a proposed...
Read MoreUS EPA report on fracking shows why Australia must ban the practice
December 09, 2011
The report by the US Environmental Protection Agency linking the practice of hydraulic fracturing (or 'fracking') will send shivers through the Australian coal seam gas industry. The EPA found that compounds likely associated with fracking chemicals had been detected in the groundwater beneath a...
Read MoreGloucester Blocks the Gate on AGL
December 05, 2011
A spontaneous blockade has been imposed on coal seam gas company AGL outside the Hunter Valley town of Gloucester. Local residents, alarmed at the entry of trucks carrying heavy equipment onto a local property where a coal seam gas rig was expected in the...
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