New Independent Australia environment correspondent Sandi Keane takes us through the dangerous and sometimes toxic world of coal seam gas and fracking, now a massive and controversial industry in Australia.
Hopes of a moratorium by opponents of the controversial coal seam gas mining sank last week when Origin Energy and its liquefied natural gas (LNG) partner, Conoco Phillips, signed Australia’s biggest single LNG agreement with China’s Sinopec. The deal through their joint venture company, Australia Pacific Liquefied Natural Gas, is worth an estimated $90 billion. This will be the third massive LNG plant proposed at Gladstone following federal and state approval for the Santos and BG Group’s LNG projects. Read More
Independent Australia (April 2011)
A Black Cockatoo Says: Absolutely Not!
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