Over the next five years, tens of thousands of gas wells are either planned or already approved for construction.
THE coal seam gas industry is about to launch an advertising blitz to try to convince the public to embrace the huge planned growth of gas wells and fracking in NSW and Queensland.
The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association said public discussion of coal seam gas extraction and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, had become ''unbalanced''.
The APPEA's member companies, including AGL, Santos, Origin Energy, British Gas, PetroChina, Shell and ConocoPhillips, have paid for an advertising campaign of four to six weeks in newspapers and on television and radio, under the banner ''We Want CSG''.
It comes as NSW planning documents released under a freedom of information request show that exploratory drilling in the Sydney suburb of St Peters was allowed to go ahead despite the previous state government assessing some of the environmental risks as ''uncertain''.
Camden Advertiser
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