coal-seam gas
Giles Parkinson is a journalist of 30 years experience, a former Business Editor and Deputy Editor of the Financial Review, a columnist for The Bulletin magazine and The Australian, and the former editor of Climate Spectator.
Report warns Australia's vastly underestimated CSG emissions – potentially equal to entire transport sector – would make Paris targets impossible to meet.
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Victorian Government
Andrews government bans coal-seam gas ‘fracking’ in Victoria
One week after energy ministers met to consider opening up Australia's gas market, Victoria Labor announces permanent legislative ban on coal-seam gas fracking.
Australian Federal Government
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Other Good Stuff
Renewables
Energy minister right on renewables and climate, wrong on gas
Josh Frydenberg's apparent shift in thinking on renewables is welcome, but his call to end moratoriums on unconventional gas is profoundly out of step.
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Renewables
Smart Energy
Not dead yet: Miners want to “gasify” closed brown coal mine in SA
As SA nears 50% renewables, one company plans to "gasify" reserves of closed Leigh Creek coal mine, in hopes of building "baseload" gas plant.
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NSW Government
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What we’re reading: NSW Energy Minister labels anti-CSG farmers “eco-fascists”
Oregon becomes 1st US state to legislate to eliminate coal power use by 2025; while NSW introduces new measures against CSG protesters, which it dubs "eco-fascists."
AGL cites low oil and gas prices for sudden exit from gas exploration and production, and all its coal seam gas assets. Environmentalists hail major victory, as AGL says...
The search for CSG is just the latest round in an ongoing contest for the ground beneath our feet.
Considered a 'clean coal' technology, underground coal gasification has a not-so clean record. Are concerns about its environmental impacts justified?
As state governments and developers scream for approval to dig up their fossil fuel reserves, and mainstream analysts warn about an impending market crunch, the focus is turning to...
Bloomberg says gas boom has turned into whopper bust, leaving industry loaded with depressed assets and 'disappointing' wells, on top of falling prices.
