Australia Pledges $58.6M Towards New Gas Projects as Part of the Gas-Fired Recovery
Australia’s gas-fired recovery plan will see a further investment of $58.6 million (US$45.6 million), focusing on four main gas projects throughout Victoria.
The investment will go towards several projects in the state, including two gas storage projects, the expansion of the South West Victorian pipeline, and a gas import terminal project.
The funding is part of the 2021-2022 federal budget to be announced next week and seeks to build on the gas-recovery plan as a pathway to support jobs and the economy, particularly following the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus (novel coronavirus) pandemic.
Lock the Gate Alliance Queensland’s Ellie Smith thanked the department for following the scientific advice. “It was frankly difficult to believe a company could even think such a mine so close to the reef would ever be accepted by the Queensland public,” she said.
The Australian Marine Conservation Society’s great barrier reef campaigner, David Cazzulino, said hundreds had attended rallies in Mackay, Yeppoon and Brisbane to protest the mine.
Building an open-cut coal mine would cause “serious and irreversible damage to a variety of important habitats, including important turtle and dugong strongholds” and was too close to the reef, he said.
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An independent report has found "sufficient uncertainty" about the contamination risk and questioned the accuracy of a proposal to drill hundreds of coal seam gas wells near a controversial Linc Energy site in southern Queensland.
Dormant gas exploration licences emerge as next frontier in New South Wales gas battle
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A dormant gas license covers this cattle farm in Bunnan.
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About a decade ago, a coal seam gas company went door knocking in the New South Wales Upper Hunter.
Key points:
The approval of the Narrabri Gas project has energised gas companies
Twelve dormant gas licenses cover 55,000 square kilometres in north-west NSW, and have renewal applications pending
The state government s Future of Gas statement is expected in the coming months
What happened next would drive a wedge through Anne Bishop s family.