Petition- Ban all CSG prospecting and mining in drinking water catchment areas

MEDIA RELEASE 21 March 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today welcomed elements of the coal seam gas exclusion zone State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP), but expressed concern that agriculture was still unprotected and that a potential loophole had been created that allows local councils to opt out of exclusion zones. “Allowing [...]

The campaign to protect New York’s drinking water supply from potential contamination caused by shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing – or hydro fracking as it is called here – has ramped up significantly over the last 12 months. New Yorkers boast that they have the world’s largest unfiltered water supply. One billion gallons a [...]

The Powder River Basin, which extends from Southeast Montana through the North East and to the centre of Wyoming is well known for its coal deposits. About 360 million tonnes of coal is taken from this area, 40% of US demand. The basin supplies coal to about 35 power stations with only a few of these [...]

Many will remember the emotional interview with Pavilion farmer John Fenton in Gasland. We met John atop Indian Ridge, Wyoming, where once the Crow and Arapaho Native American tribes battled for control of the vast Bison herds that spread across the plains. From his dusty boots, blue jeans, check shirt and dinner plate sized belt [...]

Day 2 – Fort Worth Texas Fort Worth is a city of over 1 million people and is, seemingly proudly, the first city in the US to allow the unconventional gas industry into its urban centre. Today there are 2000 wells with their tanks, pipes, separators, massive noisy drilling operations, compressor stations, fencing, roads, water holding ponds, [...]

MEDIA RELEASE9 December 2011 The Greens NSW mining spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham said today that the US EPA finding that fracking for gas had contaminated a drinking water aquifer in Wyoming provided a stark warning to Australia not to let the dangerous unconventional gas industry loose on Australia, and called on the NSW Government to make [...]