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Dear Prime Minister Abbott,
About a week ago, the home of David Quince, a well-known Liverpool Plains farmer and prominent anti-CSG activist, was the subject of an attempted break in.
They – whoever they might be - knew that David was at home alone and tried to break into his house at 3.00 am in the morning.
From all accounts, it was an extremely frightening experience.
David Quince is one of the finest and most respected farmers not merely on the Liverpool Plains – but in Australia.
He is also one of the very toughest and the very bravest: like ourselves, he has led the charge and never taken a single backward step when it came to defending his land and what he believed to be right.
My wife Heather and I know exactly what David Quince has gone through.
We have also stood up to defend our land and do what we believed to be right in the face of what is now a virtual mining invasion.
Our home has been broken into no less than three times since September 2013.
Heather was targeted the first time, with her computers, laptops and IPads removed and her files forensically searched.
We were broken into again in April 2014, and I was the target this time: all of my computers, laptops, IPads, binoculars, cameras and tape recorders were stolen, as well as my files being searched. My Land Cruiser was also stolen.
Our house was again broken into the next night, despite being secured by carpenters and locksmiths. After putting in security and dogs, more intruders were apprehended on the next night.
Four nights later, a helicopter was sat ten metres above our house at midnight. Since then, we have been forced to move out of our family home and seek security.
We have received no satisfaction at all from local Toowoomba police.
As you know, this matter was raised by Bob Katter in Federal Parliament a few weeks ago and the investigation of Federal Police has been sought.
This matter was also raised by ourselves on Friday at the Senate Committee Investigation into the Newman Government in Queensland.
No Australian should be forced to endure the *terrorization and trauma that David Quince and my wife and I have been forced to endure.
Prime Minister, we would like to ask you a few simple questions.
How long can we expect to see prominent Australian citizens being treated this way, and on your watch?
When, from a Prime Minister and our Commander in Chief, will you protect the citizens of our nation and defend our prime agricultural land and scant water resources against this foreign mining invasion?
It is time for you to stand up and be counted.
The Australian people expect nothing less.
Kind regards
Dr David Pascoe
Photo: David Quince.
23rd November 2014 :
NEWS FLASH, NEWS FLASH. You wont see this in Des Houghton of the Courier mail articles, or the Chimpchilla News. Nor will you see it on lame-stream media.
There has been a major CSG incident near Chinchilla. An incident involving both Arrow and Origin so I have been told.
It involves the blowing of an aquifer, a water bore blowing out very impressively so i am told. The CSG compliant unit has attended and it is reported to me, they have told the Gas Co's to fix the problem.
Of course there is no make good for this and monetary compensation is the only solution. I have been informed the figure of $1,000,000 is the proposed compensation. But my concern is will $1,000,000 silence this issue, is that all the future of our nation is worth. Also if it is as it has been reported to me, a whole of aquifer damage, what about all the food that was going to be grown from this aquifer.
What about all the other farmers in the area who rely on this aquifer to remain productive.
My personal opinion is it is TIME FARMERS stood up and said, MONEY is not the answer, shutting this industry down is the answer. Instead I suspect the monetary value will be all that is required to silence this issue, destroy the lives of numerous productive farmers as the problem spreads, and all the while slimy no account journalists will continue to spread the co-existence bullshit.
So how much truth is in this allegation, enough for me to hear it from both the CSG industry and farmers alike. Will I pursue this, no, I don't use underground water, our bore is already poisoned, both the industry and the government have covered that up. This claim is for FARMERS who will be impacted to chase up, for any journalist if there are any left in lame-stream to follow up. It is common knowledge.
For those of you who don't live in a gasfield, you will not realize this industry leaks information at an alarming rate, my personal belief is that people working in the industry are just trying to relieve the burden on their soul by leaking information. So has anyone got the balls to follow this up, probably not, but we are talking an aquifer, not a water bore, we are talking an aquifer.
23rd November 2014 later on:
Thanks for sharing this news flash around, the CSG Compliance Unit needs to come out and deny or admit the truth of this story. No need to talk to Arrow or Origin or the APPEA. Just get the facts on the record from the CSG compliance unit, or DEHP or who ever the hell should be regulating this industry, and chase up the effected farmers.
Now it isn't my bore and I wasn't there, but i have absolutely no reason to doubt what I was told from different sources. This is real CSG news, this is the real deal, someone needs to explore this story.
Not APPEA's spin, what about the real farmers who's lives and future depend on this aquifer, could there be a link to LINC, they are stinking the place up again. I mean, investigative journalists used to do this work, WTF happened to them.
What causes water bores to explode, that was how it was described to me. What about a few souls working in the industry come clean and go on the record, even if anonymously, get these facts out there. IT'S TIME.
23 November at 15:06
Chinchilla Water bore blow out and Aquifer destruction. It is reported that this bore blew out, exploded was the term i was told and water spewed all over the landowners paddock. Is this OK Australians. Remember your breakfast probably came from these paddocks, was probably grown from irrigation water from these aquifers. Only idiot choose to poison their water, and bigger idiots allow the polluticians they vote into power to poison it for them. This is a no brainer, there are already so many bores in this area blowing gas, added to that the Condamine River is blowing gas at an alarming rate. Yet your polluticians and useless public servants tell you it is safe. I tell you what is safe, pack these bastards up, put them on a boat and send them back to where they came from. Let honest Australians enjoy clean air, clean water and clean food. Let honest farmers do what they do best, grow food. Do you need to all go to uni to do a course to understand the basic simplicity of this. Poison the air and the water and you poison the food. Deplete the water and nothing grows. WTF, are we just STUPID.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMPtWT6RsF4
OK, here is an update on the AQUIFER BLOWOUT. This blowout occurred to a bore that had sat unused for 30 years, without any indication it blew out spraying water over a paddock, this was a mix of water and gasses, it continued for around 24 hours before the water slowed but the gas continues to gurgle and blow out. I wonder how many of these water bores the CSIRO tested in their unscientific examination of emissions from the CSG industry. WHAT does this indicate?????? Clearly it shows CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE. It shows gas has found its way from the COAL SEAMS to the AQUIFER. NO SCIENCE or SPIN NEEDED to come to that conclusion. So how do we think the CSG industry will try to spin this, did the bore always blow gas, that is the tried and proven way to fool idiots into looking the other way. I cant see any other option for our sold out government and its puppet servants to spin this. But the thing is it DIDN'T always blow gas DID IT. FIRST the bubbling CONDAMINE RIVER, I love the way they call it a seep.
OK, about this Aquifer blow out, I want people to think of how easy it is to shut this up. If i worked for the industry, meaning if I was a total psychopathic moron this is what I would do. I would insist the farmer had no contact with the media. I would wave a juicy carrot under the farmers nose. I would delay the CSG Compliance Unit from commenting or better still get one of my bought and sold polluticians to comment on, even Candrill himself maybe. I would then cover all evidence of the crime against humanity hat is being perpetrated right here, right now.
Now I'm not a total moronic psychopath so I would beg the farmer to in fact contact every media outlet as well as the non-mainstream media outlets. I would have the guts to stand up for what is right, I would know that if i signed the bore away i guaranteed the future of my neighbors to be waterless. I would know that this gas is now escaping unchecked into the soils all around my bore, my land, my neighbors land and I would make a stand. I would know that the future of all the farmers in my region depended on crushing the insane CSG industry and running it out of our land. I would rule my actions by what I KNOW IS RIGHT, even if it not so financially rewarding.
I would also ask for support and in doing so make sure of the motives of those I asked for support.
If I was a greedy self centered moron I would in fact go for the million dollar pay out, because to silence this i would guarantee the industry will pay a million. But in taking that million I would know I sold all my neighbors and friends out, I would know that history would show me to be one of the first to sell my soul. That is not how I would choose to be remembered.
So the eyes of Australia are trained on a farmer who has experienced the destruction of his unused water bore, waiting to see if that farmer and his advising body is prepared to sell out Australia, will be interesting the next few days.
Why can I make this passionate plea, simple really, a neighbor just down the road sold around 5000 acres of his property to QGC for $8,200,000. We own 5200 acres, my cars are falling to bits, the arse is out of my jeans, but my conscience is clean. As the dirt is shoveled on my face, it will hit a smiling face because I did the RIGHT thing. We all know what the right thing is, even our sell out polluticians, our sell out public servants, our sell out neighbors, we all know what the right thing is.
This farmer should be compensated, but for the right reasons, not silenced to hide a sad reality that is sweeping across our nation. Our most precious resource is water, this farmer has the opportunity to save Australian AQUIFERS.
Further....
So think about this little fact. How many billions of tons of water are they extracting from underground. That all holds the gas down, but as David was explaining to me earlier it also hold the surface up. How many billions of tons can you extract before the subsidence begins. It was pointed out to me at a meeting ages ago, that the Murray Darling Basin will in fact change the course of the river because of this subsidence. That how important this battle is, right here, right now, before one aquifer after another falls and eventually the GAB. It is now we stop this industry and this is the evidence we need to stop it. people power, not bought and sold science.
Further...http://water.usgs.gov/edu/gwdepletion.html Brian quotes UGGS.
Now please read this quote form the above, and tell me how you can remove billions of tons of water and not cause subsidence. ""Land subsidence
The basic cause of land subsidence is a loss of support below ground. In other words, sometimes when water is taken out of the soil, the soil collapses, compacts, and drops. This depends on a number of factors, such as the type of soil and rock below the surface. Land subsidence is most often caused by human activities, mainly from the removal of subsurface water."
This Aquifer collapse, and i hope all the farmers near there stand up now and be counted, because there are a lot of them with bores blowing gas now. This is the gas industry and governments Achilles, this and health impacts. But this is in your face obvious. Is it enough, are there enough true blue Aussies left farming, i guess we find out over the next few days/weeks. Or is this region only full of sellouts who care not for the future generations or the land.
Come on you farmers and I know a lot of you, stand up for Australia, if you don't have someone to film your burning or bubbling bore, message me, we will do it for you. This is the TIME, they stuffed up, here is the chance to ensure water for future generations, don't let your grandchildren down.
Jane Hughes reports to Brian that is now all over Twitter... and that it is being circulated.
Quote from above from Cripps, or Creeps as i think he should be renamed. "I will make sure, as the Government will, that once the investigation to determine the cause is finalized, the appropriate action is taken," he said." Now i translate that to real English, we will kick the dirt, we will wander around aimlessly, we will do little or nothing and then when you forget it ever happened we will say it is all under control and would you please look the other way because there is nothing to see here. (Tales from the Crypts)
Then the ABC Reported on this:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-24/bore--blow-out-investigation/5914126
Queensland's CSG compliance unit investigating bore 'blow out' on the Western Downs
Friend Brian Monk on Facebook if you want to stay abreast of what is happening on the ground in a real life living hell in the Western Downs of South East Queensland at TaraFARMERS MAY CHOOSE TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY ON THIS POST. I spent a lot of the night pondering why a damaged aquifer would get such little publicity. My prediction that a bought and sold pollutician would spin the spin occurred, thanks creeps. My expectation that the farmer would not expose the full extent of damage appears to be true. My prediction that it wouldn't make mainstream appears correct. But none of this was what kept me awake last night, I was awake with this sobering thought, this rumination. It isn't the Gas Companies that allow this industry to flourish, it isn't the Government elect and public servants. No, it isn't, I bet that surprises you. And it wasn't those who signed before the full impacts were obvious. It is those FARMERS who choose the pay off, the payoff is directly proportional to the embarrassment the incident could cause. I think back to when Agforce up here, the farmers organization, went across the state telling farmers they had no choice, now all they talk of is make goods and compensation. No doubt they are involved in this little bore blow out fiasco as well. Anyway, the big bucks will go to the impacted farmer, the sad thing is, that like the bubbling Condamine River, the river that is hardly ever seen in the media, because farmers dont allow access. It is all the same really, the problem is not anyone other than the farmers who see dollar signs as more important than the future of our beautiful nation. So I suggest we stop blaming the companies and the government and start blaming the very people on whom the blame belongs. Not those farmers in the early days, none of us knew back then. But those today, who choose to add their signature of access for the thirty pieces of silver. Not one of my neighbors were forced to sign access agreements, not one, yet 10 out of 13 have. A couple were bullied and coerced, but not one was forced. That is why Coal Seam Gas will roll out over this entire nation, because FARMERS have lost sight of what they once were very good at, caring for the future, their roll is the greatest, their failure to fulfill it has the greatest impact. So when you are at meetings, look around you and see who is going to sell you out, or even if, when the price is right, you will sell out those around you. The FARMER and LAND OWNERS are the true sell outs of our nation. Now i have no intention of modifying this comment. To the farmers I have stood with and talked to who will never sell out, you are all legends, to the rest of you, you are sell outs, you are to blame, not Blighty or Candrill or a gas co, you give this industry permission to destroy our nation with your signature, no one else, no excuses. Probably loose a lot of friends with this post, but the thing is, I don't want sell outs as friends, I fight this fight at great personal cost, and I expect my friends to fight it at the same cost. This is the battle for a future, if that isnt worth the cost, then un-friend me. [Facebook]
I would like to add something here, in the early days before we knew, I would have sold to get out of the industrialization, I just didn't want people all over our land. So no saint here, and I don't profess to be one. But now no one has an excuse, everyone knows, everywhere, and those who cannot see cannot see for greed.
But now as I watch this cancer spreading over the entire nation I realize every signature not given, every pollution exposed, every failure publicized is one chip for the future, other areas and some of ours will save itself by chipping away. PLEASE DON'T SIGN, you have a future to protect.
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| On the Western Darling Downs District of South East Queensland |
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| Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The poem begins as an old sorcerer departs his workshop, leaving his apprentice with chores to perform. Tired of fetching water by pail, the apprentice enchants a broom to do the work for him – using magic in which he is not yet fully trained.
The floor is soon awash with water, and the apprentice realizes that he cannot stop the broom because he does not know how. The apprentice splits the broom in two with an axe, but each of the pieces becomes a whole new broom and takes up a pail and continues fetching water, now at twice the speed.
When all seems lost, the old sorcerer returns, quickly breaks the spell and saves the day. The poem finishes with the old sorcerer's statement that powerful spirits should only be called by the master himself.
Dayne Pratzky loved the quiet life on his rural block in central Queensland. Then the coal seam gas company arrived, and that changed everything. Legally he couldn’t stop them mining his land, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t fight. And so began a David and Goliath battle against a $200 billion industry. Along the way he found love, tragedy and triumph.
This is a film about a bunch of ordinary people caught up in a modern day multinational “gold rush” to secure and exploit coal seam gas.
Fracking is an issue that is presenting difficult questions for all of Australia’s political parties, but at its heart is a very human drama. What we find is that smouldering resentment has turned conservative country people to civil disobedience. Politicians with their snouts in the trough are caught off-guard not knowing who to support.
Our central character is Dayne Pratzky – a knockabout pig shooter building a simple home on his block of land in Central Queensland. One day the gas company comes calling and demands access to his land for gas mining. Dayne is told he has no right to refuse access to his land, and so begins his journey as a reluctant activist that will take him around the world.
Dayne introduces us to the people drawn into a battle that is crossing the ideological divide, bringing together a peculiar alliance of farmers, conservationists and political conservatives. Along the way Dayne finds love, tragedy and triumph as he battles to save his community from becoming an industrial wasteland. There are laughs, tears and near death experiences, and a raft of colourful Aussie Bush characters.
But it’s the underlying theme that is critical: Who owns our land? Who owns our future? Can we balance competing claims for our water, food and energy and still preserve the environment?
One thing is certain: the rush to extract Coal Seam Gas is forcing us to ask difficult questions about our way of life and what we value.
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| The purpose is itself the purpose, it is the which to which there is no whicher! |
The Palmer United Party in Queensland has been useful in this arena, guess that makes Clive a good guy in this one instance. He must divest from Coal to ever be truly on the money with trying to amend the mess in Queensland.
According to the Australian financial news publication the Financial Review, a former coal-mining tycoon was alleged to have been granted approval to amend his environmental authority for maintenance dredging near the Great Barrier Reef. This was subsequently approved to him one (1) week after it was said he donated a whopping $150,000 to the Queensland arm of the Liberal National Party.
In another statement it was divulged that this very same mining tycoon denied any link to special treatment because of that whopping donation. So who is he actually trying to kid. Does he think that the public actually believe these lies from the top.
People can see for themselves and have experienced first hand the slimy tactics of the Newman government and therefore would not be fooled by this.
I think the majority of Queensland people who vote in any of the state elections would see this in a completely different light altogether. These blatant corrupt self serving individuals are in it for the money, not for making friends. Do you think they care who or what they destroy to get their drug. (money)Images @ Eminpee Fotography
The heart breaking stories I have read over the past few years leave no other summation for me or for others. There are many who would like to see this senate inquiry move and morph into an ICAC type body that New South Wales has in place.
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Read More about Ian Macdonald and other corruption uncovered at the NSW ICAC website go HERE
Great Artesian Basin coal-seam gas ‘risk’
The Australian, 7 November 2014
The Frack Files
Danny Chivers, New Internationalist magazine, December 2013
Groundbreaking Report Calculates Damage Done by Fracking
Ecowatch.com, 3.10.13
Harvard fracking study rings methane alarm bells in Australia
Peter Hannam, SMH, 27.11.13
Bridge Out: Bombshell Study Finds Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Production Far Higher Than EPA Estimates
Joe Romm, Think Progress, 25.11.13
Crude Solution
60 Minutes, Channel Nine, 15.08.13
Alan Jones interviews Dr Richard Denniss
Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 2GB, 5.7.13
Alan Jones interviews Barry O’Farrell
The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 2GB, 20.06.13
Alan Jones and guests discuss CSG and Offshore Petroleum Act
The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 2GB, 19.06.13
Alan Jones interviews Tom Marland (Qld lawyer)
The Alan Jones Breakfast Show, 2GB Radio, 19.06.13
Cotton growers voice concerns over CSG
ABC TV, 7.30 New South Wales, 21.06.13
Test your bores, landholders in gas fields advised
James Nason, Beef Central (online publication), 21.06.13
Water Contamination from Fracking: Jessica Ernst Releases Groundbreaking Report
Damien Gillis, TheCanadian.org, 20.06.13
Well of Truth
GetUp and Aquarius Productions - filmmaker Richard Todd
Mining’s contribution / Water a priority
Gloucester Advocate, Dr Richard Denniss and John Ross - 1.05.13
Is the coal industry economically worthless?
Renew Economy (online publication), 1.5.13
More risks than benefits in CSG
Australian Financial Review, 4.4.13
Risky Business
Aljazeera TV 11.1.13
Meet the Frackers
ABC TV, Foreign Correspondent, 28.2.12
LNP elder calls for investigation of CSG whistleblower claims
ABC National Radio, AM Program with Tony Eastley, 2.4.13
Alan Jones discussing “Gas Leak!”
2GB Radio, 2.4.13
Four Corners – “Gas Leak!”
ABC TV, Four Corners, 1.4.13
Gas Drillers bring in the Heavy Hitters
New Matilda - 6.2.2012 - Calliste Weitenberg.
Energy use sucking up a precious resource
SMH - Paul Sheehan - 9.1.2012
The Coal Seam Gas Rush
ABC News Online - 13.1.2012
CSG company failed to report saline spill
ABC TV - 7pm News - 13.1.2012
Katter’s Qld leader joins CSG protest
Ch.Nine News - 13.1.12
‘Fountains’ of methane 1,000m across erupt from Arctic ice
Daily Mail (U.K.) Online - 13.12.2011
Media Release from Lock the Gate Walgett
Media Release - Lock the Gate Walgett
‘Corruption’ alluded to at CSG hearing
Southern Highland News - 12.12.2011
Doco reveals farmers’ coal fight
ABC TV NEWS - 17.11.2011
State opposition talk tough on CSG
The Land - 17.11.2011
US implicates fracking in pollution
Aust. Financial Review (AAP) - 9.12.2011
Warning on CSG impact ‘ignored’: report
The Australian - 2.12.2011
Resources veteran takes aim at CSG ‘cowboys’
The Australian - Anthony Klan - 5.12.2011
Coal-seam gas boom puts pressure on governments
The Australian - Editorial - 2.12.2011
Gas projects left under a cloud
The Australian - 2.12.2011
Concern builds over chemicals left behind
The Australian - Anthony Klan - 2.12.2011
Serious errors made in CSG: Heffernan
ABC TV - Lateline Business - 30.11.2011
CSG explorer takes blind NSW farmer to court
AFR - Financial Review - 29.11.2011
Government shuts down parliament to avoid Coal Seam Gas Moratorium Bill Vote
Media Release - Jeremy Buckingham (Greens) - 28.11.2011
Dirty Money – Matthew Benns
ABC Brisbane - Evenings with Steve Austin - 24.11.2011
Bill calls for moratorium on CSG mining in NSW
Alan Jones - 2GB radio - 24.11.2011
Report finds CSG water dumped in Qld river
Australian Financial Review - 24.11.11
The seam old story springs a leak
SMH - Paddy Manning - 19.11.2011
Quest for coal
Today Tonight - Channel 7 news
Win for gas blockade as Santos pulls back
SMH - Ben Cubby - 15.11.2011
Underground “Fossil Water” Running Out
National Geographic News - 6.5.10
Alan Jones speaks to Senator Bill Heffernan about coal seam gas mining
Radio 2GB - Alan Jones - 11.11.2011
Grappling with science and sceptics
SMH - Ben Cubby - 12.11.2011
Test Drilling For Gas Worries Mid West Residents
ABC TV - 7.30 W.A. - 12.11.2011
CSG makes Lib ‘a radical activist’
The Australian - Paul Cleary - 7.11.2011
Great Barrier Grief
ABC TV - Four Corners - 7.11.2011
Alan Jones speaks to Gundi Royle about coal seam gas.
Radio 2GB - Alan Jones - 4.11.2011
Energy analyst turns up heat on new gas projects
SMH - Paddy Manning - 28.10.2011
Landowners undermined by companies
ABC TV - 7.30 NSW - 4.11.2011
No royalties for five years
The Singleton Argus - 4.11.2011
English tremors blamed on fracking
Sydney Morning Herald - 3.11.2011
Chris Hartcher on mining on farm land
Alan Jones - 2GB radio
Thousands rally against CSG mining
ABC radio Sydney - 16.10.2011
Keep the gas in the bag
SMH - editorial - 14.10.2011
Land users shout loud against ‘legalised theft’ by miners
SMH - 13.10.2011
Alan Jones steps on the gas at Gunnedah forum
Northern Daily Leader - 13.10.2011
Benefits of switch to CSG may not be all they seem
SMH - Paddy Manning - 8.10.2011
Australia is selling off its inheritance, says James Dines
Herald Sun - 30.9.2011
Protecting our farmland
Alan Jones, on radio 2GB - 5.10.2011
Coal approval at what price?
Newcastle Herald - 7.10.2011
Coal seam gas will be ‘essential’ for NSW
SMH - Ben Cubby - 6.10.2011
CSG can’t possibly win farmers’ hearts and minds
North Queensland Register - 29.9.2011
Count on resource boom, but not all its benefits
The Australian - 28.9.2011
Gas Inquiry Hears Widespread Concern
New Matilda - 26.9.2011
Is coal-seam gas worth the risk?
The Australian - 24.9.2011
Mining on farm land
Alan Jones - 2GB radio - 23.9.2011
Coal Seam Gas traumatising farmers
ABC Country Hour - 22.9.2011
Coal seam gas sucks up water
Newcastle Herald - 22.9.11
Talk of no toxicity case
Daily Telegraph - Tracy Spicer - 20.9.11
Oil, gas licences ignite demands for overhaul
SMH - 19.9.2011
Coal seam gas mining story on 7 News
2GB radio - Alan Jones
Coal seam gas under renewed pressure
Lateline - ABC TV - 29.8.2011
Carcinogens found in CSG project
SMH - 28.8.2011
Coal seam gas moratorium support
Prime 7 TV News - 26.8.11
Palmer blasts ‘poisonous’ coal seam gas industry
ABC News - 28.8.2011
Protesters gatecrash mining conference
ABC TV NEWS - 18.8.2011
Put brakes on CSG, Windsor urges
news.com.au - 17.8.2011
Heffernan calls for no-go farmland zones
The Land (and AFR) - 16.8.2011
Alan Jones comments on protecting our land
Alan Jones on 2BG radio - 15.8.2011
Debate rages over coal seam gas plans
ABC radio - AM - 2.8.2011
Landholders unite against coal seam gas companies
Financial Review
The cold hard fracks
Sydney Morning Herald - Olivia Newton-John - 31.7.2011
CSG mining causes cancer, experts warn
SMH - 18.7.2011 - Petrina Berry
Rural inhabitants up in arms over wanton destruction
The Australian - Heather Brown - 16.7.2011
Fresh food for rural discontent
The Australian - Graham Lloyd, Enviroment Editor - 9.7.2011
Era of the ‘blackboot’ brigade
The Sunday Courier Mail - Daryl Passmore - 6.3.2011
The impact of coal mining in Queensland
Alan Jones, 2GB radio - 16.6.2011
Fertile plains under frack attack
Sydney Morning Herald - Leonie Lamont - 18.6.2011
Group plans to fight mining exploration
ABC TV news - Saturday, June 11, 2011
Greens and farmers fight mining land grab
The Australian - Heather Brown - 28.5.2011
Gates shut in the gas lands
The Australian - 28.5.2011 - Graham Lloyd (Environment Editor)
EPA investigates coal seam gas leak in Sydney
ABC TV news - 27.5.2011
Fracking’s toxic recipe
Business Spectator - Barry Estabrook, Salon.com 20.5.2011
Australia’s agriculture under threat from mining
Radio 2GB - Alan Jones, 20.4.2011
Coal seam gas: a sleight of hand?
Dr Shearman - ABC - The Drum, Opinion
Mine Threat to Artesian Basin
The Australian - Asa Wahlquist
Coal seam groundwater concerns
ABC Environment 22.03.2011
Get this right or we all lose
Queensland Country Life - 10.03.2011 - Letter from Anne Bridle
Gas seam mining
ABC radio - Mornings, with Angela Owen 10.03.2011
Four Corners – The Gas Rush
ABC TV - 'Four Corners' - 21.2.2011 Reporter - Matthew Carney
Coal seam gas report points to chemicals ban
SMH - Business Day - Alexandra Smith - 3.2.2011
Not enough known on CSG: experts
Queensland Country Life - 8.1.2011 (Bronwyn Farr)
Media release from Drew Hutton
Flood waters creating massive pollution from mine sites across Queensland
Fracking for coal gas is a health hazard
Doctors for the Environment Australia - 2.12.2010 article by David Shearman
Federal cave-in on gas restrictions
Courier Mail - 3.12.2010
Peak body warning on CSG
Sydney Morning Herald - 3.12.2010
CSG plans approved despite red flag
Queensland Country Life, 23.11.2010
Land use fury takes another steep turn
Queensland Country Life - 18.11.2010
Concerns over Queensland’s coal seam gas project
Cathy Van Extel, ABC Radio National, 4th November 2010
Methane danger in CSG, scientist says
Brisbane Times, 10.08.2010
Downs farmers challenge CSG water claims
Queensland Country Life
60 Minutes – “Undermined”
Ch. 9 - 14/5/2010
The greatest environmental threat?
ABC interview re coal seam gas - on 19/4/2010
Xenophon concerned about Artesian Basin
Timothy McDonald, ABC World Today, 21/09/09
Farmers in N.W fire up as Feds give nod to artesian sales
Lucy Knight, The Land, 26/06/2009
Alarm over auction of artesian basin water
Marian Wilkinson, Environmental Editor, SMH July 4, 2009June 2009
"When Brown looked closely, though, she saw something else: trauma. Hyper-vigilance and dissociation, for example, could be mistaken for inattention. Impulsiveness might be brought on by a stress response in overdrive."
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