Australia delays decision on coal seam gas

Environment Minister Tony Burke delays federal approvals  –   BG Group says still on track for 2010 investment decision Australia’s environment minister has delayed a decision to approve coal-seam gas projects

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Irrigators face water cuts while CSG pumps on

CENTRAL Downs irrigators remain frustrated by State Government policies that allow coal seam gas companies to extract millions of litres of water from underground sources while farmers face significant and

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Gas drilling produces radioactive wastewater

Wastewater from natural gas drilling in New York State is radioactive, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands of times the limit

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Welcome to my primer on hydraulic fracing

Hydraulic Fraccing - or "How to Destroy the Earth's Fresh Water Supplies Without Anyone Finding Out" Please read this full story (with clear diagrams) on how hydraulic fraccing destroys the aquifers

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Hydraulic Fracturing

Hydraulic Fracturing – Issues and Impacts Chemicals in Fracking Fluids.  Source: EPA.  Click here for a larger version. Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals – Coalbed fracture treatments use anywhere from 50,000 to 350,000

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UNSW Connected Waters

Groundwater makes it possible to grow many of our crops and pastures.  And we’re looking increasingly to aquifers to provide drinking water for our growing towns and cities. Groundwater is

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Concerns about Coal Seam Gas – ABC blog

 Concerns about Coal Seam Gas –  ABC Blog – Liz Hedge 30/8/2010  A group of concerned farmers and local MPs are still unpacking after they took a trip to Roma and

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ABC NEWS (QLD) 13/8/2010

Why won't the govt. release the test results for toxins found in Kogan Creek?

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Methane danger in CSG, scientist says

The coal seam gas (CSG) industry being developed in Queensland could create huge amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane, a Climate Institute scientist says. "With thousands of potentially unregulated, unmonitored

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Downs farmers challenge CSG water claims

Members of the Basin Sustainability Alliance say at least two Queensland Government documents show that CSG water is extracted directly from the Walloon Coal Measures, which is an aquifer of

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