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Drew Hutton, member of Friends of the Earth and Lock the Gates campaigner,...
BZE's Vivien Langford and Nick Carson talk to Drew on his involvement with Lock the Gate and speaks about his desire to defend the landscape and its biodiversity by denying gas companies access to...
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ABC Breakfast-'Jury out': Is gas the future of clean renewables?
Australia's transition to a clean energy future has long assumed a greater role for gas, including the newly emerging coal seam gas sector being developed in eastern states of the country. But Greens...
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Fugitive emissions: what is the real footprint of coal seam gas?
The debate about coal seam gas drilling in Australia is intensifying, amid calls from The Greens to further investigate its emissions profile.So what is the emissions profile of coal seam gas? How does...
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Stephen Lacey from ClimateProgress talks about worldwide renewable energy
Beyond Zero's Matthew Wright speaks to Stephen Lacey from ClimateProgress.org, about the most recent developments of global renewable energy.Transcript: Matthew Wright: Today on our show we are...
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The Age Business Day: Coal, shale, sand? Your gas is as good as mine
The Age Business Day reports: WE ARE adults here. We know that there will be some very tough trade-offs that will be needed to tackle climate change. But the oil and gas industry is asking too much if...
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It's time to rip up gas networks
By Matthew WrightCLIMATE SPECTATOR reports:It's time to set a date to phase out Australia's old 19th century gas networks. In their place, the electricity network can take on all of the energy tasks of...
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smh Environment: Coal seam gas 'clean' claims under attack
SMH Environment reports: A REPORT commissioned by the coal seam gas industry into its own greenhouse gas emissions, and held as commercial-in-confidence for months, shows that Australian gas exported...
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GREEN DEALS: Is CSG cleaner than coal?
CLIMATE SPECTATOR reports:A new report commissioned by the peak body of the oil and gas industry suggests that claims coal seam gas exports are up to 70 per cent cleaner than coal exports over their...
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Clean energy bill only a beginning
Online Opinion report:: This week the Australian Parliament passed the Clean Energy Bill. Despite my reservations about the bill, I am pleased to see it finally made law. However, the work of the...
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Sydney Morning Herald: Green group fired up on 'inconvenient' report
Sydney Morning Herald Environment reports:A MAJOR energy consultancy has been accused of suppressing a report that might have cast doubt on industry assurances that coal seam gas is a much cleaner fuel...
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CSG Needs a Long, Hard Look
Matthew Wright, November 24:The contentious issue of coal seam gas has become a federal government concern in the dying days of the 2011 parliamentary sitting year. To gain the backing of independents...
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TRANSCRIPT- Mark Ogge radio interview with ABC Port Pririe
ANNETTE MARNER, PRESENTER: Well, will solar thermal power replace the coal-fired Playford B power station at Port Augusta? Now, Port Augusta has two coal-fired plants: Playford B, which became fully...
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Farmers squeezed out of energy boon
Stock ＆ Land reports: LANDHOLDERS should be capitalising on seismic changes in how we generate energy, says Matthew Wright, but instead they are being pushed aside.Mr Wright, executive director of...
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Gas emissions up to seventy times worse - immediate moratorium a must
Unconventional gas emissions up to seventy times worse than industry claims - immediate moratorium a mustReal time air sampling of gas fields in the US has shown leakage rates of up to over seventy...
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Renewistan or Carbonopia: where would you rather live?
Matthew WrightPublished last November, Andrew Charlton’s Quarterly Essay Man-Made World: Choosing between progress and the planet made some fundamentally important points: that solutions to climate...
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Entrenching Energy Interests: Ferguson’s Energy White Paper
Arena reports: During the prime ministership of John Howard, the term ‘greenhouse mafia’ was coined to describe the fossil fuel industry representatives who were so influential they were literally...
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Worley Parsons says LNG exports could be worse than coal
The full report by leading engineering consultants Worley Parsons confirms its previous findings that coal seam gas exported to China is not necessarily less emissions intensive than coal, and could be...
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Exporting more coal and gas?
Newcastle, home of the biggest coal loader in the world, is set to expand at Terminal 4.Tonight we talk to activists Steve Phillips, Amanda Albury and Fergus Green. Music from The Lurkers Steve tells...
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Santos’ shale gas adventure to slug SA households over $260 a year.
Santos’ foray into expensive shale gas will increase household bills by a whopping $263 each year. Santos has admitted that shale gas will double the wholesale price of gas, adding $163 to average gas...
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Biogas no saviour for Sydney’s trigen plan
By Matthew Wright.The City of Sydney plans to build a network of gas burners, each of which would simultaneously provide power, heating and cooling to public and private buildings.The City believes...
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