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Updated: December 08, 2011
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Coal Seam Gas
Coal Seam Gas is emerging as a massive public issue. Gaslands, farmers and locals standing up to multi-national corporations, community blockades in Queensland, and growing problems in New South Wales have captured the public’s imagination. But just what are the environmental impacts of this massive new industry? And what is the Wilderness Society in NSW doing about it?
Coal Seam Gas Updates
- Icons Under Threat - December 07, 2011
- Inside the head of a mining exec - November 13, 2011
- Coal seam gas will cause extinctions in the Pilliga - November 07, 2011
- Under the Radar - new report lifts the lid on Eastern Star Gas operations - July 18, 2011
Natural areas in NSW are coming under unprecedented threat from coal and coal seam gas mining. Our new report Icons Under Threat showcases the incredible values of seven iconic natural areas in NSW that could be lost if current mining proposals are allowed to go ahead.
Confirming what many of us have always suspected, a recent edition of the spin-busting Gruen Planet on the ABC lifted the lid on the dark art of mining advertising, including advertising for controversial coal seam gas.
Some of Australia’s leading ecologists have predicted that there will be local extinctions of rare and threatened species if the Pilliga Coal Seam Gas project goes ahead. The Eastern Pygmy possum, Pilliga mouse and the South-eastern Longeared bat are all at risk from the construction of a gas field in the Pilliga Forest.
Eastern Star Gas has been trashing parts of the Pilliga since 2004, avoiding environmental laws in the process. A new report by the Wilderness Society, the Northern Inland Council for the Environment, and the Nature Conservation Council of NSW has exposed this scandal.
Coal Seam Gas Media Releases
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O’Farrell called to act on 10,000 litre untreated coal seam gas water spill - January 13, 2012
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'Licence to pollute' was never obtained for CSG water dumped in creek - December 13, 2011
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CSG inquiry to hear that Pilliga frogs were killed by CSG saline brine - November 15, 2011
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NSW Government All At Sea over CSG - November 14, 2011
