Coal Seam Gas Updates
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Santos forced into Pilliga shutdown - April 26, 2012
After an investigation by the Wilderness Society and local environment groups, coal seam gas company Santos has had to temporarily shut down the majority of their drilling operations in the beautiful Pilliga Forest.
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Fracking frenzy builds in Kimberley - March 16, 2012
Onshore oil and gas tenements in the Kimberley, covering an area the size of the UK (24,000,000 hectares), is now under the control of just three mining companies. This massive increase in oil and gas tenements highlights that the proposed industrial complex at James Price Point is the first of many threats facing the Kimberley.
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Icons Under Threat - December 07, 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.
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Inside the head of a mining exec - November 13, 2011
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.
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Coal seam gas will cause extinctions in the Pilliga - November 07, 2011
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.
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Under the Radar - new report lifts the lid on Eastern Star Gas operations - July 18, 2011
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.
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Pilliga coal seam gas project an environmental disaster - July 01, 2011
The Pilliga Scrub is one of Australia’s bush icons. At over 500,000 hectares – two thirds the size of Belgium - it is the largest temperate woodland in eastern Australia. Now coal seam gas company Eastern Star Gas wants to turn this unique forest into a massive industrial development.
