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  1. Coal seam gas a threat to water resources

    industry brings risks to Australia鈥檚 limited water resources. It draws contaminated water out of the ... campaign to stop CSG mining. Images in the documentary Gasland of people setting their tap water on fire ... have made many question the impact of unconventional gas on water supplies. Yet research into the ...

  2. How CSG threatens drinking water catchments

    licences have been issued and development approved in vital drinking water catchments in NSW. The promise ... water catchment area, and will ensure that mining leases and mining exploration permits reflect that ... a decade 鈥 mining or any other activity to threaten water resources.鈥 He also said: 鈥淸CSG] exploration ...

  3. Jess Moore at Occupy Sydney: 鈥楾hey unwittingly unleashed a powerful community campaign鈥

    seam gas mining. It threatens our water, it threatens our food and it threatens our air 鈥 things that ... we need to live. It threatens our water because all coal seam gas mining requires contaminated water ... to be drawn out of the seam to access the gas. That water is saltier than sea water. That water is so ...

  4. New rules open all of NSW to coal seam gas mining

    Regional Land Use Policy on September 11. The public was told the policy would protect land and water from ... leader Barry O'Farrell promised to ban exploration and mining in drinking water catchments. He said: ... 鈥淭he next Liberal/National government will ensure that mining cannot occur 鈥 in any water catchment ...

  5. Coal seam gas fight is about our future

    future and our right to protect this area 鈥 to protect our drinking water, our food and our future. Coal ... seam gas mining threatens all of these things. So when it comes to our drinking water, first and ... foremost, there is the water that they have to draw out of the coal seam to access the gas. That water is ...

  6. Stop CSG: a fight for our future

    threaten water resources. 鈥淸CSG] exploration licences have been granted, in some cases permission to mine ... of a national day of action to defend water resources. A report by the Senate committee on rural ... altogether. However, despite O鈥橣arrell鈥檚 recent acknowledgement of the potential risks CSG poses to water ...

  7. The people versus coal seam gas

    The industry puts huge demand on water supplies, particularly ground water, damages aquifers and ... produces large quantities of contaminated water that can pollute soil and water sources. It divides the ...

  8. Are QLD and NSW the new gasland?

    changed to allow petroleum and gas exploration in state conservation and drinking water catchment areas. ... does not have to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act under an exemption granted by the Bush ... begin mining for gas under the Sydney water catchment. The letter acknowledged that damage to the ...

  9. Billionaires welcome decision to expand coal in NSW

    expansion will mean immense damage to local water catchments that supply drinking water to Sydney and the ...

  10. CSG industry spin can鈥檛 change the dirty facts

    drilling pad, pumps, generators, compressors, vehicles and a storage pond or tank to hold waste water ... mining waste water and underground systems. Researchers from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

  11. Unconventional gas boom: more risks, fewer jobs

    growing fast. Impacts on water, food, health and the environment, associated seismic risks and climate ... unconventional gas mining. It poses risks to water, food, health a Analysis ...

  12. Power run for profit, not CSG, fracks with power bills

    campaigning against electricity, but to protect land, water and communities from the many documented risks ...

  13. Carbon price: the gas agenda

    industry poses serious risks to water, agricultural land, biodiversity, climate and health. The coal seam ...

  14. Climate change: is population the problem?

    Diesendorf wrote: "Greenhouse gas emissions, peak oil, urban traffic congestion, air and water ...