Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams – media project and fundraiser
As LP readers will know, many bloggers have been concerned for a long time about the quality of public debate around contentious issues. Many of these issues are ‘wicked problems’ – scientifically and socially complex, presenting real challenges to policy [...]
Greens plant some rural seeds
Perhaps the most significant of the ABC’s “My Vote” videos (where voters talk about their electorate and the issues that concern them) features the delightfully and aptly named Sid Plant, a farmer from the Darling Downs in Queensland. Plant, like [...]
Coal seam gas prospects: economic bonanza or future industrial wasteland?
Coal Seam Gas (CSG) (together with open cut coal mining) is “the single biggest environmental issue in Queensland’s history”. Mining threatens to turn the Darling Downs, one of Australia’s prime food bowls, into an “industrial wasteland”. Thus spake Drew Hutton, [...]
Coal seam gas: an emerging environmental issue
I’m planning to post later today, or perhaps tomorrow, a post on the environmental issues associated with the coal seam gas (CSG) industry in Queensland’s Darling Downs food growing area. Of interest should be a segment on Landline (12 noon [...]
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