Great Artesian Basin Protection Group

Well of Truth

GABPG_user — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:41:34 +0000

This is a collection of videos capturing the personal and environmental consequences of CSG mining. Hear first hand the stories of people who have been directly impacted by rushed assessment processes, broken promises and had their health, homes and land threatened by CSG mining.

Click here to visit http://www.welloftruth.org/

Mining’s contribution / Water a priority

GABPG_user — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:33:24 +0000

This is a scanned copy of two letters to the editor which were published in the Gloucester Advocate on 1st May 2013:

Mining’s contribution – by Dr. Richard Denniss, Executive Director of The Australian Institute.
Water a priority – by John Ross, Manager Hydrogeology AGL Upstream Gas.

Click here to download a PDF of the two letters.

Peer Review of Interim Protocol for Site Verification and Mapping of BSAL

GABPG_user — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:23:05 +0000

This is a copy of Soil Scientist Robert Banks’ peer review of the Interim Protocol for Site Verification and Mapping of Biophysical Strategic Agricultural Lands. Robert Banks has sent this document with a letter urging the NSW government “to provide some clarity on the issues raised in the document” and “to get such complex planning determinations correct, for the future of this State and its people”.

Click here to download the PDF version of Robert Banks’ peer review of BSAL Protocol.

Is the coal industry economically worthless?

GABPG_user — Thu, 02 May 2013 04:04:32 +0000

A report released on April 24 by the Australian coal industry, Adding value to the Australian Economy, unsurprisingly documents only one side of the ledger. It is perhaps more surprising that this one-sided report has some academic imprimatur, when review of the international literature reveals a very different picture.

The complete picture shows coal is expensive. The cost of legacy coal assets may appear cheap to the consumer but the community pays the true cost in many other ways; this article details the health costs.

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/is-the-coal-industry-economically-worthless-25804

More risks than benefits in CSG

GABPG_user — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:14:20 +0000

Article by Bob Katter – What do you call an industry that doesn’t create many job opportunities, doesn’t provide significant revenue for the economy and destroys structural homeland industries through systemic and endemic collateral damage?

It’s called the coal seam gas industry.

http://www.afr.com/p/opinion/more_risks_than_benefits_in_csg_rzi5tx8wymhIPv95zezhPO

LNP elder calls for investigation of CSG whistleblower claims

GABPG_user — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:34:54 +0000

Former Queensland bureaucrat Simone Marsh has told the Four Corners program she was forced to rush assessments of major coal seam gas projects in a process which put commercial outcomes before the environment.

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3727561.htm

Alan Jones discussing “Gas Leak!”

GABPG_user — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:28:32 +0000

Alan Jones talks about the Four Corners program “Gas Leak” – and how disgraceful the approvals system for gas projects has been. How the govt. said all they wanted were “bankable outcomes” – that they had a $20 million project and that this project must be approved. And that “commercial considerations were to be put above all else.”

http://www.2gb.com/audioplayer/8233

Four Corners – “Gas Leak!”

GABPG_user — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:24:03 +0000

The coal seam gas industry promotes itself as a cleaner carbon-fuel alternative; but how do we know this is true? Until now much of the information used to back this claim has come from the industry itself.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/04/01/3725150.htm

Risky Business

GABPG_user — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:18:00 +0000

Coal seam gas has the potential to make Australia an energy superpower, but at what price?

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2013/01/20131771222674145.html

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GABPG_user — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:44:44 +0000

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