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Gasfield Free Byron Bay & Northern Rivers
Carrying on the activism from the huge community project of resisting the government backed mining insanity at Bentley NSW in 2015. This page includes posts from 2 FB pages: CSG Free Byron Bay & CSG Free Northern Rivers. – – – The aim of the Gasfield Free Northern Rivers movement is to protect the biodiversity, water resources, agricultural lands and sustainable industries of the Northern Rivers, and the livelihoods and wellbeing of the people who live here, from the impacts of coal seam gas (CSG) and other forms of unconventional gas mining. Our objective is to have the Northern Rivers region declared a CSG and unconventional gas free zone, and for all current licenses and leases that allow such activities to be revoked.
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Deputy Premier photographed looking for his brains whilst saying to farmers he can insure them against the damage done by gas mining.
www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/6906892/state-will-ensure-farmers-can-insure-against-csg-dep...
State will ensure farmers can insure against CSG: Deputy Premier
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The NSW government will ensure farmers are insured against potential negative impacts of coal seam g...Anger over proposed changes to national environmental laws is escalating, with legal, health and conservation groups urging that they not pass the Senate, with some warning it would increase the extinction rate.
The government rammed its legislation to change Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act through the lower house on Thursday night, prompting outrage from Labor, the Greens and crossbench.
WWF-Australia says the bill in its current reform is a “recipe for extinction” and lacks standards that would ensure strong protections for nature, as well as a commitment to an independent regulator to enforce the law.
Australia’s national environmental laws: what is the Morrison government proposing to change and why?
“There is more than just wildlife at stake here,” Rachel Lowry, WWF-Australia’s chief conservation officer, says. “If approved, this bill will fail Australians at this critical moment in time because it fails to incentivise win-win solutions that stimulate our economy and protect the places and animals we love.
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/06/recipe-for-extinction-why-australias-rush-to-chang...
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Critics argue shifting approval powers to the states without an independent regulator will fail to p...Coal seam gas bubbles up through farmland near scene of infamous burning river video
Coal seam gas bubbles up through farmland near scene of infamous burning river video
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A landholder consultant is calling for greater transparency after gas and groundwater bubbled to the...Support the Organic Consumers Association of Australia to
* ensure consumer interests are represented at all levels of management of organic including standards, certification, & marketing.
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* keep pesticides away from food & protect the environment.
* encourage domestic regulation. Current Australian consumer law can regulate organic claims, but lacks specific organic legislation so there is little surveillance of the market, especially imported products; some products are uncertified; complaints are rarely pursued.
* Fight forces that want to lower standards to permit soilless growing systems, allow synthetic chemicals, intensify animal keeping, accept GMO contamination, & remove environmental care obligations of certified organic production.
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REMIND ME AGAIN....
Why the f**k are we going all gas in this country when doing so ticks all the ‘terrible idea’ boxes. Bad for the economy, bad for the environment, bad for farmers, bad for preserving precious water supplies, bad for health, bad for energy costs, bad for national security, really bad for climate change, bad for Indigenous peoples and bad for every f**king body (except the greedy crazy corporate elite). Why this insane gas fixation?
“Rather than drill new fracking wells into prime farmland, the quickest, cleanest and most economically efficient way to boost the supply of gas in Australia is to stop wasting it....It is not just manufacturers that don’t really need to burn gas; the Australian electricity industry is trying to wean itself off the stuff too. Before Australia started exporting gas in huge quantities, burning gas was a relatively cheap way to produce electricity during peak times. But that’s no longer the case....The faster we can shut down gas-fired electricity generators, the less need we will have to frack more gas.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/03/phasing-out-gas-would-benefit-australian-manufactur...
Phasing out gas would benefit Australian manufacturers and households | Richard Denniss
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The Australian government should allow the electricity industry to wean itself off gas
Origin Energy have drilled on the banks of the Condamine River where the original gas seeps are and there are BIG PROBLEMS - read the article & share the original post.
Article: Origin Water and Gas Incident - Farmland and Condamine Catchment
While water and methane coming to the surface provide a very visible flag of the looming problem, what about the even greater uncertainties for landowners that these abandoned exploration holes together with gas industry depressurisation of one strata, provide pathways for water, methane and anything else to travel to other aquifers important for food production that could result in a myriad of problems.
www.molliwell.com.au/origin-gas-and-water-incident-coal-exploration-bores/
Origin Gas and Water Incident: Coal Exploration Bores
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Listen to Interview here Let’s start by shifting the focus away from this impacted landholder, it ...FRACKING AGREEMENT REACHED
Native title holders in the West Kimberley have signed an Indigenous Land Use Agreement with a petroleum exploration company that will allow the use of fracking south-east of Broome.
Theia Energy has been negotiating with the Karajarri people for more than a year, to gain necessary approval for their Great Sandy Desert Project, with an agreement signed off on Friday.
The ABC obtained a conceptual plan of the project last year that showed a network of wells pipelines and even a new port on the Kimberley coast.
But Theia chief operating officer Jop van Hattum said that was not what was being proposed at Friday's meeting, and initially just one well will be drilled and fracked in 2022.
Mr van Hattum said the agreements will provide economic opportunities and control to the native title holders.
"Karajarri people first of all have a lot of control on where well-pads are being established, where pipelines are being established, that their cultural heritage is being protected," Mr van Hattum said.
Karajarri Traditional Lands Association executive officer Martin Bin Rashid said the agreements provided an opportunity for Indigenous people and would protect the environment.
"We see this as an opportunity to take Karajarri forward, we're confident that if fracking is done correctly it is low impact."
well people, there goes your clean air, land and water....FOREVER....just for a few bucks....
www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2020/jul/27/paris-climate-agreement-us-exit-trump-world-vid...
Why Trump abandoning the climate fight puts the planet in even more danger – video explainer
The Guardian's enviroment reporters Emily Holden and Oliver Milman look at why Donald Trump wants to leave the agreement and whether the world can make a success of the deal without America's cooperation
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