Communities take on coal seam gas companies

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any see coal seam gas as a “bridging’ energy source as we wean ourselves off coal and oil.

That view, however, is misguided and yet encouraged by the CSG enthusiasts, for gas sourced in that manner is equally damaging to our environment as any other fossil fuel.

Beyond that, and further worsening the process is the physical damage it does to in the areas of exploration, its excess use of water (an increasingly rare commodity in Australia), the disruption it causes in communities it visits and worst of all the escaping rogue gasses put it right up there with the worst of the fossil fuels.

Newcastle Herald writer, Julie Lyford, has written a piece about CSG - “OPINION: ​‘Chosen’ CSG communities will not sit still”.