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GAS WATCH 77 - AGL ENERGY - to drill more holes at Broke and Bulga

Date: 07-Feb-10
Author: Hunter Valley Protection Alliance
AGL Energy has just received approval from the Department of Industry & Investment, Minerals to drill a further 8 core holes and stratigraphic holes on the properties it has bought at Spring Mountain, Broke, and Windermere at Bulga.

AGL Broke and Bulga exploration Approval and Notice of Drilling

Date: 06-Feb-10
Author: Graeme Gibson
AGL now have approval to drill 8 core holes and stratigraphic holes on the properties owned by them at Broke (Spring Mountain) and Bulga (Windermere).

Geodynamics Presentation

Date: 06-Feb-10
Author: Graeme Gibson
Attached is a presentation by Geodynamics in relation to its proposed Hot Rocks exploration in the Bulga area.

AJ Lucas Will Have First Half Loss

Date: 02-Feb-10
Author: Australasian Investment Review via Yahoo!7
Shares in AJ Lucas Group fell more than 10% after the company told shareholders to brace themselves for disappointing half-year results.

Miner up-beat about cutting carbon footprint

Date: 01-Feb-10
Author: ABC News
Coal & Allied says a trial of its coal bed gas project has proved so successful it will be rolled out across other mines in the Hunter Valley within eight weeks.

Gas Watch 76

Date: 22-Dec-09
Author: Hunter Valley Protection Alliance
AGL ENERGY - necessary corrections to recent media releases in Cockfighter news.

AGL Hunter Activities

Date: 14-Dec-09
Author: Jenny Thompson & Amanda Albury
RE: Major Development AGL Gas Part 3A, taking The Bucketts Way Valley Area, and removing this beautiful valley area as we know it, destroying aquifers, creeks, rivers etc.

Hard decisions must be made if they want the big bucks

Date: 07-Dec-09
Author: Adele Ferguson (SMH)
For the past three years the coal seam gas industry has been the new god of energy, promising big profits, green power and a gateway to aligning Australian gas prices with the more lucrative global market... But now the clock is ticking for the industry to turn rhetoric into reality and start making some financial investment decisions (FIDs).

Gas Watch 75 - AGL has nowhere to go, unless we let them in

Date: 02-Dec-09
Author: Hunter Valley Protection Alliance
A map has been produced by the Broke Bulga Community Consultative Committee. The map is of the Broke and Bulga areas which AGL Energy wants to turn into a gas field.

Gas Watch 74 - AGL fails regulatory obligations.

Date: 09-Sep-09
Author: Hunter Valley Protection Alliance
AGL 'forced electricity prices higher' - says SMH.
AGL accused of "price gouging" by the ACCC - says the ABC.
Most needy residents have been the victims of appalling bungling by AGL - says the Herald Sun.

Community Newsletter

Date: 11-Aug-09
Author: Hunter Valley Protection Alliance
A newsletter from the Hunter Valley Protection Alliance - Methane Gas Situation in the Broke Valley

Santos fires up coal seam gas in Gunnedah Basin

Date: 10-Jul-09
Author: Ian Kirkwood (The Herald)
MAJOR Australian gas provider Santos is investing $476 million to buy coal seam methane gas resources in the Gunnedah Basin.

Together with the planned $850 million Queensland Hunter Gas Pipeline and the State Government's apparent preference for gas to fire a new baseload power station at Bayswater near Muswellbrook, the Santos investment represents a major step forward for the gas industry in NSW.

Gas Watch 73

Date: 20-Jun-09
Author: Hunter Valley Protection Alliance
AGL Energy buys wind farms in SA - but threatens the Hunter Valley with release of another fossil fuel and loss of groundwater.

Gas Watch 72

Date: 17-Jun-09
Author: Hunter Valley Protection Alliance
AGL ENERGY Fails to deny intention to build a gas processing plant on its Hunter Valley properties.

Gas Watch 71

Date: 14-Jun-09
Author: Hunter Valley Protection Alliance
AGL ENERGY, has purchased two further properties in the Broke and Bulga areas. It has bought the property known as Spring Mountain on the Cessnock Road/Oakley Lane at Broke; it has bought the sand mining property at Bulga.

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  12-Jun-09
• AGL drilling to go on in Hunter
  05-Jun-09
• Safeguarding Agricultural Land and Water from mining
  20-May-09
• Gas Watch 70
  12-May-09
• Gas Watch 69
  27-Apr-09
• Gas Watch 68
  27-Apr-09
• Gas Watch 67 AGL! Methane Gas could Kill the Hunter Valley.
  08-Apr-09
• Cyanide insanity
  08-Apr-09
• Chooks Revenge - Methane on Mangrove Mountain
  02-Apr-09
• Drilling must stop
  27-Mar-09
• Fuel storage tanks blamed for water contamination
  26-Mar-09
• Singleton council goes for Broke on gas
  25-Mar-09
• Anger over test wells
  13-Mar-09
• More unattributed SPIN from AGL Energy (Sydney Gas)
  09-Mar-09
• AGL must sack these amateurs NOW!
  09-Mar-09
• Gas Watch 64 - 'I'm the Enemy' says AGL's Colin Stace
  09-Mar-09
• Drill for Natural Gas, Pollute Water
  07-Mar-09
• George Souris Private Members Statement on Upper Hunter Gas Exploration
  07-Mar-09
• Sydney Gas will be suspended from trading on March 4
  26-Feb-09
• Support for those under threat of mines
  20-Feb-09
• Gas Watch 63
  18-Feb-09
• Controversial Gas Mining Company threatens village
  18-Feb-09
• Hmmm, no comment!
  12-Feb-09
• Follow up letter to Ian McDonald MLC
  12-Feb-09
• AGL Energy up to 92.5% in target Sydney Gas
  12-Feb-09
• Gas Watch 62
  12-Feb-09
• Gas Watch 61
  12-Feb-09
• Letter to Ian McDonald - NSW Minister for Primary Industries
  04-Feb-09
• ACCC Letters from HBGAG
  04-Feb-09
• Sydney Gas shareholders urged to accept takeover
  21-Jan-09
• Sydney Gas backs AGL bid
  19-Jan-09
• Drawing The Line
  19-Jan-09
• $750m Hunter power station plans shelved
  15-Jan-09
• AGL Energy raises stake to take control of Sydney Gas
  07-Jan-09
• Sydney Gas, AGL statements pending - Trading Halted
  23-Dec-08
• Early Christmas present for Millfield residents
  19-Dec-08
• WAGE Tee Shirts
  18-Dec-08
• Estimated Carbon Footprint of Sydney Gas and AGL in the Hunter
  14-Dec-08
• Which is true Mr Lukas?
  13-Dec-08
• The Fault Line 5
  10-Dec-08
• You're the 'tops' SGL- spinning nothing into a web of myths
  10-Dec-08
• Coal Seam Gas In The Hunter Valley
  30-Nov-08
• Valley's $10bn methane gas find
  29-Nov-08
• Yet another SGL Board Change...
  20-Nov-08
• Valley's choice: Gas or the GP
  02-Nov-08
• Gas Watch 53
  17-Oct-08
• The Fault Line 4
  17-Oct-08
• Sydney Gas AGL Core Hole Update
  14-Oct-08
• GAS WATCH 52
  13-Oct-08
• HBGAG Response to 'raising few complaints'
  09-Oct-08
• Hunter drilling 'raising few complaints'
  08-Oct-08
• Sydney Gas Director sells out as price plummets
  26-Sep-08
• Fears Qld gas project will destroy arable land
  09-Sep-08
• Plan to mine coal gas off Newcastle coast
  09-Sep-08
• Danger signs at Broke drilling
  07-Sep-08
• What a weekend!
  07-Sep-08
• In answer to the latest bit of PR released by Sydney Gas
  03-Sep-08
• Sydney Gas Test Well Update
  01-Sep-08
• Hunter residents outraged over methane gas exploration
  22-Aug-08
• So... who was that unmoderated moderator?
  22-Aug-08
• Gas Watch 43 - Sydney Gas simply doesn't care!
  20-Aug-08
• Lee Rhiannon Video
  19-Aug-08
• Residents to fight Wollombi gas project
  19-Aug-08
• Flare-up over gas test well near Broke
  17-Aug-08
• $300 million exploration licence to be granted near Gunnedah
  15-Aug-08
• Who's lying?
  13-Aug-08
• Wollombi residents get drill on gas project
  12-Aug-08
• Gas Watch 42
  12-Aug-08
• Wollombi coal seam methane gas exploration
  09-Aug-08
• Miners to light protest fuse
  08-Aug-08
• Gas Watch 41
  08-Aug-08
• Residents unhappy with gas search
  07-Aug-08
• Response to Mark Harper
  05-Aug-08
• Letter from Mark Harper (General Manager Sydney Gas)
  05-Aug-08
• Gas Watch 39
  05-Aug-08
• Sydney Gas Update on Gas Exploration - 31 July 2008
  31-Jul-08
• Total Environmment Centre on Sydney Gas in Wollombi
  31-Jul-08
• Gas Watch 38 - There is Always a Risk
  30-Jul-08
• Wyong hydrogeological report by Tim Jones as referred to on ACA
  29-Jul-08
• Replies from Kerry Hickey and Joel Fitzgibbon
  29-Jul-08
• Three Sydney Gas Documents
  24-Jul-08
• Similar issues for Liverpool Plains
  24-Jul-08
• Letter to Verity Firth
  23-Jul-08
• Letter to Peter Garrett
  23-Jul-08
• Gas Watch 37
  16-Jul-08
• Gas Bonanza
  16-Jul-08
• Minutes from the second Wollombi Sydney Gas Meeting
  15-Jul-08
• Sydney Gas Update
  11-Jul-08
• GAS WATCH 36
  06-Jul-08
• Mineral exploration - vital to the future of NSW
  02-Jul-08
• Response to my email to Dana Hollis
  01-Jul-08
• Upper House Questions without Notice
  27-Jun-08
• Response to a question at Cessnock Council re Sydney Gas
  26-Jun-08
• Other newspaper reports
  21-Jun-08
• GAS WATCH 33.
  19-Jun-08
• Response to Graeme Gibson from Mark Harper (Acting CEO SGL)
  17-Jun-08
• Gas article in The Herald
  16-Jun-08
• Gas Exploration Update
  15-Jun-08
• A few questions
  14-Jun-08
• Gas Watch 32 (HBGAG) and a response to Andy Lucas (CEO SGL)
  11-Jun-08
• Gas Meeting
  08-Jun-08
• More Useful Documents
  08-Jun-08
• Gas Watch No 31 (HBGAG) and other documents - UPDATED
  03-Jun-08
• Sydney Gas Fact Sheet Extract
  03-Jun-08
• A quote on Drilling
  03-Jun-08
• Sydney Gas to start drilling near Wollombi and Paynes Crossing
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