Category: CBM
To the Ends of the Earth: A Guide to Unconventional Fossil Fuels
Corporate Watch's new cutting edge report provides the most comprehensive and accessible guide yet to unconventional fossil fuels The endless pursuit of economic growth, coupled with the decline in conventional energy sources, is driving ever more extreme forms of energy extraction around the world, with ecologically and socially disastrous consequences.…
Pilliga coal seam gas operation to continue despite damage to aquifer
NSW says it will not bow to pressure to halt gas operations after Santos was fined $1,500 for contaminating groundwater Oliver Milman theguardian.com, Monday 10 March 2014 23.54 GMT Coal seam gas protesters gather in Sydney in 2011. Photograph: Wilderness Society/Sarhn McArthur/AAP The New South Wales government has said it…
Santos fined after coal seam gas project contaminates aquifer ‘with uranium’
NSW under pressure to break fast-tracking agreement after energy producer fined $1,500 for ‘pollution incident’ in the Pilliga Australian Associated Press theguardian.com, Friday 7 March 2014 23.56 GMT Conservationists are pushing for Santos to halt all coal seam gas projects in NSW. Photograph: Josh Coates/AAP Image/The Wilderness Society The NSW…
Solidarity with Scotland: Huge gas plans for Airth: 100 rigs, compulsory purchase orders and fracking not ruled out
Source: Frack Off Driller Dart Energy revealed some shocking truths at a meeting in the small Scottish village of Airth last night. Company representatives told an appalled audience they planned up to 100 drilling platforms in the area, representing a huge increase over previously announced plans. Angry residents pointedly asked…
Videos from meeting in Keynsham – Coalbed Methane VS Renewable Energy
Coalbed Methane VS Renewable Energy — The people of Keynsham – You decide! Part 1 – Sam Willits reads the minutes of the meeting that took place between Transition Keynsham & UK Methane‘s geologist Mr Oliver Taylor and director Mr Gerwyn Williams. We had requested to use UK Methane’s presentation…
Produced water not tested for the last 8 months in Airth
Beware of the reassurance that Coal Bed Methane will be closely monitored, take this recent example in Scotland: Source: http://frack-off.org.uk/dart-dump-sepa-stumble/ Dart Energy have been pumping water and methane out of coal seams on a site at Airth near Falkirk for over 8 months now. Recent enquireys and FOI requests submitted…
Meeting tackles plans to drill for methane gas
Bristol Post, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 MORE than 100 worried residents attended a meeting in Keynsham to hear about plans to drill for gas near their homes. Specialist firm UK Methane has lodged a planning application to drill a borehole on land near the Hick's Gate roundabout, to see whether…
Driller’s wells produce carcinogenic water
Source: http://frack-off.org.uk/drillers-wells-produce-carcinogenic-water/ The Coal Bed Methane (CBM) operator behind the UK’s largest onshore gas development, Dart Energy, has found its old CBM wells in Australia are now producing carcinogenic water. 50% of Dart’s 7-year-old wells in Dalby, Queensland were found to be leaking by the Queensland government. Tests showed high…
Action Alert: Stop CBM drilling in Keynsham
**ACTION ALERT – Oppose UK Methane’s planning application to test drill for Coalbed Methane in Keynsham ** UK Methane have applied for planning permission for a test drill in the Hicks Gate area of Keynsham. Read more about Coalbed Methane below. Submit a planning objection – find all details, links…