News and analysis from the Guardian on coal seam gas
August 2024
Australian fossil fuel exports ranked second only to Russia for climate damage with ‘no plan’ for reduction
Coal and gas exports expected to remain roughly at current level until at least 2035 with 4.5% of emissions linked to Australia, report finds
June 2024
Labor defends approval of Gina Rinehart-backed gas project in Senate – video
Gina Rinehart-backed company gets approval from Tanya Plibersek for coal seam gas project
April 2024
Labor’s proposed changes to water trigger laws could have ‘centuries-long consequences’, environment groups say
Proposal would allow states and territories to make decisions about coal mining and unconventional gas where water resources are affected
December 2023
Full Story
The year the world labelled fossil fuels as the problem – Full Story podcast
Climate and environment editor Adam Morton speaks to Laura Murphy-Oates about the biggest environment and climate stories of the year
November 2023
The rural network
Toowoomba council votes for moratorium on coal seam gas projects
Council becomes sixth in Queensland to oppose development of new wells after farmer concerns about sinking soil and water contamination
September 2023
The rural network
About 1,000 protesters rally in Sydney against coal seam gas and water buybacks
Farmers protested against Murray-Darling Basin policy and the proposed Hunter gas pipeline
April 2023
The rural network
Coal seam gas waste plan risks washing ‘5m tonnes of salt into the Murray-Darling Basin’
Critics say a proposal to dispose of salt from waste brine by burying it in lined landfill is ‘not a long-term solution’
March 2023
Full Story
The battle over Labor’s key climate policy
Australian Politics
Adam Bandt on Labor’s ‘timid’ approach to the climate crisis and inequality
February 2023
The rural network
Strange bedfellows: inside the campaign for the black soil plains
Farmers have invited crossbench MPs to join the campaign against Santos’s proposed coal seam gas development on the Liverpool plains
The rural network
Teal independents join farmers in Liverpool Plains to oppose Santos gas development
Sydney-based MPs Kylea Tink and Sophie Scamps meet locals fighting coal seam gas project and Hunter pipeline
‘Making the climate crisis worse’: Greens blast Labor after Queensland coal seam gas expansion approved
Decision allows Santos to open 116 new wells with an operational life of about 30 years in the Surat Basin
January 2023
The latest hot potato? Gas stoves. Will the culture wars never end?
Emma Beddington
Never ones to let the flames of a culture war go unfanned, Republican politicians have waded into the argument over an imaginary plan to ban gas hobs, writes Emma Beddington
December 2022
Datablog
Amid opposition to gas price caps, Australia’s resources companies make record profits
Relief as Santos dumps plan to release untreated CSG water near Queensland bum-breathing turtle habitat
October 2022
Government urged to reject plan to release CSG wastewater near ‘bum-breathing’ turtle’s Queensland habitat
An independent expert report found Santos’ proposed releases could have ‘major impacts’ in the Dawson River
June 2022
Queensland government considers lease extensions at the site of anti-CSG blockade
Arrow Energy’s applications to extend leases discovered by campaigners via report on company website
April 2022
Weatherwatch
Uncontrolled coal-seam fires are catastrophic polluters
Queensland government acknowledges subsidence caused by CSG could affect farmland
