Each is planning to pipe CSG from the Surat and Bowen basins, around Roma, to the coastal city of Gladstone about 400km away; there they will liquefy it for export (see article).
An anti-CSG rally outside the state parliament in Sydney on May 1st drew 4,000 people.Amid calls for tighter regulation, the New South Wales state government imposed a moratorium on fracking until April; its status remains in limbo.
This drop, he said, should be applied to salaries up to 3.5 times the minimum wage, financed by raising other taxes, such as VAT, green taxes, property taxes or the "generalised social contribution" (CSG).
Similarly, there is official silence on whether Victoria develops a coal seam gas (CSG) industry.
On Thursday Queensland senator Glenn Lazarus demanded a halt to all CSG projects in the wake of Bender's death.
"All of a sudden, we have CSG companies, some of which haven't always been best community players, come on to land and use bully boy tactics".
"Given the depth of community feeling on this issue, and the harm that coal and CSG projects are doing, we are renewing our calls for no-go zones on productive farmlands, drinking-water catchments, near communities and in special natural areas," Smolski said.
A BOOM in coal-seam gas (CSG) has sparked environmental protests by an unlikely alliance of farmers and greens in New South Wales and Queensland, the populous states where most CSG drilling is happening.
Coal-seam gas (CSG) is transforming Australia's energy market, and stimulating its robust economy.
Water has brought people into the streets against CSG.
On one of its CSG fields north of Roma, Santos irrigates crops with extracted coal-seam water treated by reverse osmosis.
