A coal seam gas company plans to explore sites in St Peters and the Greater Sydney area despite a recent protest on King St involving enraged residents.
Dart Energy’s licence for coal seam gas (CSG) exploration in the Sydney Basin expires this month and activists are calling for the license to be revoked.
Spokesperson for local activist group Stop CSG-Sydney Jacinta Green said the NSW Minister for Resources and Energy, Chris Hartcher, holds the power to stop Dart Energy.
According to the group, Dart Energy had not complied with all the license conditions including a commitment to a “minimum work program” which requires the company to produce reports on the exploration of environmental and core-hole impacts by the end of 2010. They said some conditions had still not been met in 2011.
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