Fracking

Queensland’s next deep unconventional ‘oil and gas’ phase (with fracking)

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Cattle cross a gas pipeline as a gas drill rig looms in the background

Over the past year, the Queensland Government has promoted new exploration acreage and highlighted the economic potential of deeper onshore petroleum development, including in the Taroom Trough. At the same time, there has been a noticeable increase in applications to amend existing Environmental Authorities (EAs) to include hydraulic fracture stimulation (HFS), disposal of drilling residuals, … Read more

A Short History of Fracking in the Pilliga Forest

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By Johanna Evans It’s the hour before sunrise in the Pilliga forest, it’s cool and the stars cover the forest like a blanket, it’s quiet mostly, the occasional truck belts down the Newell not seeing the scars left by gas company Eastern Star Gas and their cowboy fracker contractors who held no regard for the … Read more