The Greens will lodge a senate motion today calling for the suspension of current coal seam gas projects and ask that no new approvals be awarded.
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Santos rejects calls to walk away from CSG work in NSW
Santos has advised its shareholders to reject a resolution which would see the company withdraw from work at its Narrabri gas project.
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Gloucester CSG water refused by Hunter Water
AGL has been refused access to dump waste fracking water, from its Gloucester coal seam gas project, in Hunter Water facilities.
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Two arrested at Santos CSG site as blockades continue
Two women were arrested in the Pilliga forest this morning after standing in the way of a truck convoy carrying Santos CSG drilling equipment.
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Radio Disney pulls pin on program that promotes fracking
Radio Disney has pulled out of an educational program sponsored by Ohio’s oil and gas industry after it was accused of using school students to peddle “propaganda” around fracking.
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Santos face sentencing for CSG water spill
Santos will today be sentenced in the NSW Land and Environment Court for the spill of untreated water at its Pilliga drilling site in the north-west of the state.
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First gas reaches QCLNG project on Curtis Island
BG Group will start commissioning its two LNG production trains after coal seam gas was transported from the Surat Basin to its QCLNG project on Curtis Island for the first time.
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Australia less competitive on global stage: Shell
Shell has again flagged that the high cost of doing business in Australia is affecting the nation’s competitiveness, urging the federal government to step in.
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High costs threaten to stall LNG plant investment
Arrow Energy’s $20 billion plan for an LNG plant on Curtis Island could be halted as its parent company Shell balks at Australia’s increasingly high development costs.
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Arrow Energy warns of job losses if CSG ban passes
Arrow Energy said a large portion of its 1300 staff would be lost if legislation to ban coal seam gas activity from prime agricultural land in Queensland passes.
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Doubts raised over CSG well capacity to feed Curtis Island LNG plants
Doubts have been raised over whether Queensland’s coal seam gas fields can produce enough to feed Curtis Island’s LNG export plants, with claims that many wells are not meeting production expectations.
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Queensland gas fires up contracting business
WDS Limited is bucking the downward trend that has hit many contracting companies of late by diversifying its business model to cater for the massive work needed in Queensland‘s gas sector. Vicky Validakis reports.
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Santos deny claims contractors used sacred site as toilet
Santos has hit back at claims it used a scared Indigenous site as a rubbish dump, stating there is no evidence to support the claim, despite local Indigenous groups saying contactors used the site as a toilet.
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WDS wins $50m of resources contracts
WDS Limited has won more than $50 million worth of contracts for its Energy Division, after Santos and Vale extended existing agreements.
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Coal seam gas exclusion zones come into force
The New South Wales government’s coal seam gas exclusion zones will today come into effect.
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CSG top priority for Macfarlane
New federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane intends to convince New South Wales farmers to change their stance against coal seam gas
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CSG terminology change “ridiculous”: activists
The NSW government’s move to rename coal seam gas to "natural gas from coal seams" has come under fire from Stop CSG Illawarra.
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“Natural gas from coal seams” to replace “CSG”, “coal seam gas”
The NSW government has been recommended to remove the term “coal seam gas” and its acronym CSG from official documents in the state and perhaps across Australia.
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Bechtel still hiring 100 workers a week for Curtis Island LNG
Bechtel says it is hiring around 100 people per week as the company forges ahead with the construction of three LNG projects on Curtis Island in Queensland.
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Santos fined $120k over worker’s death
Santos has been fined $120,000 over the death of a worker at its Pilliga site in 2009.
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