Links
Links about Coal Seam Methane Gas Extraction, media articles etc.
Coal Seam Methane Information
- Citizens Concerned About Coal Bed Methane
- Bulkley Valley, British Columbia
- Citizens Concerned About Coalbed Methane
- Protecting the Kootenays from Bad Gas
- Citizens resource for coalbed methane activity in British Columbia
- Coalbed Methane (Wikipedia)
- Coalbed methane is a form of natural gas extracted from coal beds. Australia has rich deposits where it is known as coal seam methane.
- Coalbed Methane in British Columbia
- A factsheet from The Pembina Institute (229 kb PDF document)
- Concerns About British Columbia's Approach to Coalbed Methane Development
- Pembina Institute: After the Gold Rush
- Pembina CBM report
- A report on Coal Bed Methane in Canada (2.81 MB PDF document)
Companies
- AGL Energy
- AJ Lucas (Lucas Group)
- Sydney Gas
- Sydney Gas Share Price (Yahoo!)
- A 5 year chart of SGL performance
Government
- Lee Rhiannon's Website
- The NSW Greens website with a wealth of information
- PETROLEUM (ONSHORE) ACT 1991
- The act governing Coal Seam Methane exploration in NSW
Media
- Australia strikes it rich as oil majors scent big potential of coal-seam gas
- Paul Larter, The Times, May 31, 2008
- Blots on the landscape
- Communities alarmed over coalbed methane drilling.
Pete Bowler The Guardian, Wednesday April 9, 2003
- Our North West Shelf
- SOARING energy prices and greenhouse gas worries could turn the Hunter Region's coal seam methane reserves into an industry the size of Western Australia's famed North West Shelf.
- Risk management applies to emissions too
- Malcolm Maiden, The Age, July 19, 2008
- SGL
- SGL news from plugger.com.au
- Shell seeks more input into Canberra's emissions trading scheme
- Jamie Freed, The Age, 19 July 2008
- Sydney Gas
- Sydney Gas news from plugger.com.au
- Wollombi coal seam methane gas exploration
- Media release on NSW Greens website
Water Quality
- Regional Water Resource Assessment - GMU - Wollombi Brook Alluvium
- This page provides high level performance indicators of water management for the Wollombi Brook Alluvium groundwater management unit (GMU) based on information provided by the government of NSW.
- Report Card for Upper Wollombi Brook Water Source (100kb PDF)
- Draft Water Sharing Plan for Hunter Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources from NSW Department of Natural Resources
We are not alone...
- Barrington-Gloucester-Stroud Preservation Alliance
- We are fighting to preserve our beautiful district - lush farmland, a popular tourist destination, and a world heritage wilderness - from the ravages of mining for gas, coal and rubies.
- Bickham Coal-Mine Action Group
- Many residents in our area believe - to extract coal at the very head of the Hunter Valley Catchment - is a bad idea.
- Caroona Coal Action Group
- Caroona Coal Action Group (CCAG) represents a country community concerned that subsidence longwall mining will damage the underground aquifers, the life blood of the food and fibre production, on the world class Liverpool Plains, NSW.
- Hunter-Bulga Gas Action Group
- The HBGAG Association members represent the overwhelming majority of the local community supporting the preservation of the area.
- Rivers SOS
- Rivers SOS is an alliance of some forty environmental and community groups concerned with the wrecking of rivers in New South Wales by mining operations.
- Save The Drip and Goulburn River
- Help us stop the Coal industry from destroying our groundwater and rivers... Why? Mining threatens many catchments.