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		<title>Wollombi Valley Against Gas Extraction News</title>
		<description>News from WAGE</description>
		<link>http://wage.org.au/news/</link>
		<copyright>Wollombi Valley Against Gas Extraction</copyright>
		<lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:08 +1100</lastBuildDate>
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			<title>Kogan contamination last straw for UCG</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Concerns by local Kogan farmers that Carbon Energy&#39;s underground coal gasification (UCG) plant is responsible for elevated mercury levels in local creeks exposes the state government&#39;s recklessness in approving a dangerous experimental industry, which has failed and should be banned, say the Greens.]]></description>
			<link>http://www.facebook.com/notes/larissa-waters/kogan-contamination-last-straw-for-ucg/142166345808687</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:56 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1178</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Larissa Waters (The Greens)]]></author>
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			<title>Gas Watch 91: AGL ENERGY awarded Green Globe Awards - by NSW Government</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The NSW Government should be ashamed to have bestowed these awards and the Minister for the Environment and Climate Change should revoke them.]]></description>
			<link>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1177</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:20 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1177</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Hunter Valley Protection Alliance]]></author>
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			<title>Scott receives promising CSG message from Garrett</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Federal LNP Member for Maranoa Bruce Scott has received a promising response from Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett after he wrote last month expressing grave concerns about the extraction of coal seam gas.

Mr Scott called on the Minister to withhold support for the CSG extraction process until science could conclusively confirm that the aquifers of the Great Artesian Basin would not be significantly impacted upon.

He said the Minister&#39;s response showed promise for federal intervention.]]></description>
			<link>http://www.nationals.org.au/News/LatestNews/tabid/94/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/5667/Scott-receives-promising-CSG-message-from-Garrett.aspx</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:00 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1175</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Bruce Scott, MP (Nationals Website)]]></author>
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			<title>Angry producers boo Bligh</title>
			<description><![CDATA[ANGRY protestors picketed Premier Anna Bligh&#39;s Community Cabinet session in Roma yesterday. Ms Bligh introduced the Community Cabinet meeting as an opportunity to "talk directly to government" and it was protestor Dayne "the frack man" Pratzky who took the Premier up on her offer when he shouted: "You&#39;re an embarrassment to Queensland and you should be ashamed."]]></description>
			<link>http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2010/07/26/angry-producers-boo-anna-bligh-roma/</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:15 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1151</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Timothy Braban (The Western Star)]]></author>
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			<title>Gas Watch 90: Liberal/National or Labour? Who will protect the Upper Hunter?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Hunter Valley Protection Alliance, the Singleton Council, community groups, local doctors and the people of the Hunter Valley want to know the answer to this question. 

We currently have next to no protection from the invasion of the fossil fuel industry in the Hunter Valley and the sacrifice by the Government of the beauty of the Hunter Valley to the fossil fuel industry.]]></description>
			<link>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1145</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:17 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1145</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Hunter Valley Protection Alliance]]></author>
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			<title>No Fracking Way!</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Pete Seeger at a News Conference on HydroFracking]]></description>
			<link>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1140</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:50 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1140</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Firminger]]></author>
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			<title>Queensland coal seam gas, liquefied natural gas ventures under a cloud</title>
			<description><![CDATA[THE Bligh Government finds itself in a very bad political position over what is looming as a critical economic and environmental issue. 

The ruling last week by federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to stall a decision on two massive central Queensland coal seam-to-liquefied natural gas projects by three months was one of two things: blatant politics designed to earn Garrett some Green kudos or a rejection of the State Government&#39;s environmental standards.

Either way the State Government looks the loser and the public is less informed about the issue than it should be.]]></description>
			<link>http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/queensland-coal-seam-gas-liquefied-natural-gas-ventures-under-a-cloud/story-e6frerdf-1225893612115</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:01 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1134</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[John McCarthy (The Courier-Mail)]]></author>
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			<title>Gas Watch 89 - AGL Energy - Access to your property</title>
			<description><![CDATA[AGL Energy has a Petroleum Exploration Lease over land surrounding Broke and Bulga (except the coal mining leases), including over the Broke and Bulga villages. 

AGL will knock on your door, tell you they have the lease and that they want onto your land. 

During their exploration phase, AGL cannot come onto your land without your written consent in the form of an Access Agreement.]]></description>
			<link>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1090</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:34 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1090</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Hunter Valley Protection Alliance]]></author>
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			<title>Gas Watch 88 - AGL Energy - Noise Complaints</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The noise from the generators used by AGL on their property next to the Broke village is now affecting the village of Broke. And this is only exploration. Many residents of Nelson Street, Broke, which is adjacent to the first well in what AGL would hope to be a methane gas field, are being affected by noise from AGL Generators, inside their own homes, to the extent that the noise at night is able to be heard over the television.]]></description>
			<link>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1089</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:00 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1089</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Hunter Valley Protection Alliance]]></author>
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			<title>Warkworth Expansion Minutes</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Singleton Council meeting on Monday, 21 June, 2010 unanimously resolved to support local communities in their opposition against the expansion of the Warkworth Open Cut Mine towards the Bulga village.]]></description>
			<link>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1073</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:16 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1073</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Firminger]]></author>
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			<title>Gas Watch 87 - AGL Energy - anticipated industrial complex on prime agricultural land in Hunter Valley</title>
			<description><![CDATA[AGL has no intention of placing a restrictive covenant over any freehold land owned by AGL, nor do we have any intention to do so voluntarily either now or in the future]]></description>
			<link>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1030</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 10:22 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1030</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Hunter Valley Protection Alliance]]></author>
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			<title>Living hell for family next to Gloucester coalmine</title>
			<description><![CDATA[ABOUT seven years ago Jan Tresidder and husband Bernie bought their dream home in the hills of Forbesdale, on the southern fringe of Gloucester, and moved from Newcastle for a quieter life.
But now they are packing their belongings, after selling to Gloucester Resources to end what they say has been a living hell brought about by potential mining on the town&#39;s doorstep and the coal exploration company&#39;s acquisition of surrounding properties.]]></description>
			<link>http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/living-hell-for-family-next-to-gloucester-coalmine/1844140.aspx</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 04:00 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1031</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Michelle Harris (The Herald)]]></author>
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			<title>Gas Watch 86 - AGL extends core business to compete with local farmers</title>
			<description><![CDATA[One would have thought that the core business of AGL Energy was, in fact, energy. But no.]]></description>
			<link>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1021</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 16:14 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1021</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Hunter Valley Protection Alliance]]></author>
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			<title>Undermined - 60 Minutes</title>
			<description><![CDATA[For those that missed the 60 Minutes feature on Coal Seam Methane in the Surat Basin... here is is.]]></description>
			<link>http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1052462</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 08:47 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1007</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Peter Firminger]]></author>
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			<title>Farmers protest at Cecil Plains</title>
			<description><![CDATA[FARMERS turned out in force at Cecil Plains yesterday to demand an immediate Queensland Government moratorium on coal seam gas exploration and production in the area.

About 400 people and the massing of 54 cotton and grain harvesters and tractors created a strong show of farm power to protest against the intrusion of mining companies on prime agricultural land.]]></description>
			<link>http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2010/05/20/farmers-force-demand-moratorium-cecil-plains/</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 22:52 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1003</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Doug Parrington (Toowoomba Chronicle)]]></author>
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			<title>No New Coal Mine in Gloucester</title>
			<description><![CDATA[A documentary by Rebecca Hrobat and Tashi Martel]]></description>
			<link>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1002</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 16:03 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/1002</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Rebecca Hrobat and Tashi Martel]]></author>
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			<title>Gas Watch 85 - Minister Macdonald says and offers nothing for the Hunter Valley communities</title>
			<description><![CDATA[On 3rd May 2010, Minister Macdonald addressed the NSW Minerals Councils OH &amp; S Conference at Pokolbin. 

We&#39;ve been trying to get him to Broke for two years. He has said he would come on a couple of occasions, but became too busy. Maybe it wouldn&#39;t have been too hard to come another 20 minutes on 3rd May!]]></description>
			<link>http://wage.org.au/news/display/973</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:00 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/973</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Hunter Valley Protection Alliance]]></author>
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			<title>Gas Watch 84 - Local AGL employees treat community and CCC with contempt</title>
			<description><![CDATA[On 13th March, 2010, and on many occasions since, Siobhan Barry, a local employee of AGL Energy, has been asked this question: Please advise the reasons why your company considers the representations made by your Company in relation to S. 30 (in relation to the required abandonment of part of PEL 4) as commercial in confidence. I would have thought that the community had a right to know why some of the PEL was being continued and other areas of it abandoned.]]></description>
			<link>http://wage.org.au/news/display/951</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 11:27 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/951</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Hunter Valley Protection Alliance]]></author>
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			<title>Health Study</title>
			<description><![CDATA[IN a major breakthrough in the dust and health debate, a team of medical experts came to Singleton on Wednesday to see, talk and listen.
New South Wales Public Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant, NSW Health Director of Environmental Health branch Dr Wayne Smith, Hunter New England Health Director of Population Health John Wiggers and Hunter New England Health Director of Health Protection Dr David Durrheim spent Wednesday in Singleton and Muswellbrook, finishing the tour with a three-hour meeting with the Singleton Shire Healthy Environment Group.]]></description>
			<link>http://www.singletonargus.com.au/news/local/news/general/health-study/1817379.aspx?storypage=0</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:24 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/954</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Di Sneddon (Singleton Argus)]]></author>
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			<title>Community paints a picture of Keneally dam destruction</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Hunter Valley residents brought their campaign to stop the Tillegra Dam proposal to the streets of Sydney today.

Greens NSW MP Dr John Kaye, who joined 150 community members and dairy cows Bess and Marty in Martin Place, said: "The Hunter Water management team is leading the Premier and her Water Minister into a political and economic dead end.]]></description>
			<link>http://braidwood.nsw.greens.org.au/2010/04/23/community-paints-a-picture-of-keneally-dam-destruction/</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:27 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/956</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[The Greens]]></author>
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			<title>Minister to speak up for mining access rights</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The New South Wales Minister for Mineral Resources, Ian Macdonald, has confirmed he will ask Parliament to protect miners&#39; access rights to farmland.]]></description>
			<link>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/21/2878437.htm</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:11 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/935</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[ABC News]]></author>
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			<title>Govt backs BHP Billiton, overturns court decision on Caroona coal exploration</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Greens MP and mining spokesperson Lee Rhiannon today condemned the government for introducing a new bill that reverses a March Supreme Court decision that found in favour of Liverpool Plain farmers challenging the right of BHP Billiton to explore for coal on their farms.]]></description>
			<link>http://nonewcoal.greens.org.au/govt-backs-bhp-billiton-overturns-court-decision-on-caroona-coal-exploration</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:34 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/937</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[The Greens]]></author>
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			<title>CSG water crackdown too late to impress landholders</title>
			<description><![CDATA[CSG extraction in regions like the Surat Basin is dependent on removing large amounts of water from aquifers, often the only water source for farms. 

Mr Burnett said the introduction of the trigger thresholds to protect aquifers went only a small way towards closing "a massive policy gap which has been glaringly apparent for over five years".]]></description>
			<link>http://qcl.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and-general/general/csg-water-crackdown-too-late-to-impress-landholders/1804109.aspx</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:50 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/924</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[James Nason (Qld Country Life)]]></author>
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			<title>Row over &#39;Texas oilfield&#39; deep in the heart of Scenic Hills</title>
			<description><![CDATA[AN APPLICATION by the power company AGL to build gas wells and a processing plant risked transforming hills north-west of Campbelltown into a "Texas oilfield", the mayor has warned.

"My concern is that I don&#39;t want my Scenic Hills turning into a Texas oilfield," the Labor mayor, Aaron Rule, said. "The image I&#39;m getting is of a lot of little gas wells all over the place feeding into a gas extraction plant to feed into Sydney gas supply."]]></description>
			<link>http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/row-over-texas-oilfield-deep-in-the-heart-of-scenic-hills-20100415-shsg.html</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:00 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/920</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Matthew Moore (SMH)]]></author>
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			<title>After 120 years, Camberwell village common turned over to coalmine next door</title>
			<description><![CDATA[A FEW minutes was all it took yesterday to end 120 years of Camberwell history to make way for the relentless expansion of the Hunter&#39;s coal industry. Department of Lands bureaucrats arrived at the village at 11am to announce that community management of the village common was being revoked.

A licence for access and grazing was being passed to Ashton Coal.]]></description>
			<link>http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/after-120-years-camberwell-village-common-turned-over-to-coalmine-next-door/1804447.aspx</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:00 +1000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://wage.org.au/news/display/922</guid>
			<author><![CDATA[Matthew Kelly and Michelle Harris (The Herald)]]></author>
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