We are adults here. We know that there will be some very tough trade-offs that will need to be made to tackle climate change.
But the oil and gas industry is asking too much if it wants Australians to incur the costs of a coal seam gas (CSG) boom, without clearly identifying the benefits.
Until lately it has been widely assumed that gas is a cleaner-burning fuel than coal, with lower greenhouse gas emissions. The rise of unconventional gas extraction - whether from shale, coal seam or tight sand gas fields - has called that assumption into question and guess what, the answer is frightfully unclear.
It would be fair to say most of the data is old or industry-funded or based on different practices used for extraction overseas. Or hidden.
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Sydney Morning Herald
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