Many will remember the emotional interview with Pavilion farmer John Fenton in Gasland. We met John atop Indian Ridge, Wyoming, where once the Crow and Arapaho Native American tribes battled for control of the vast Bison herds that spread across the plains. From his dusty boots, blue jeans, check shirt and dinner plate sized belt [...]

Day 3 –  Texas to Wyoming          From the Shale Gas fields of Texas the team flew United Airlines to Denver and hopped straight into the cars heading North through Colorado, into Wyoming and up to the town of Riverton. The flight put the extent of the of the Shale Gas industry [...]

Day 2 – Fort Worth Texas Fort Worth is a city of over 1 million people and is, seemingly proudly, the first city in the US to allow the unconventional gas industry into its urban centre. Today there are 2000 wells with their tanks, pipes, separators, massive noisy drilling operations, compressor stations, fencing, roads, water holding ponds, [...]

Day 1 – Dish (near Fort Worth, Texas) – Barnett Shale If you want to know just how imposing a gas field can be on a community – visit Dish, Texas. At Dish and all around Fort Worth Texas the target is Shale Gas from the Barnett Shale. It was one of the first areas where [...]

Media Release  11 July 2012 Greens NSW spokesperson on agriculture dismissed today’s National Party attack on the Greens being ‘anti-farmer, anti-family and against free enterprise’ as absolute rubbish, and said that the Greens were representing the interests of many farmers and wanted their number one vote. “The Greens love and respect Australian farmers, and are [...]

MEDIA RELEASE 6 July 2012 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham has expressed concern at the extremely light fines imposed on Santos for polluting waterways with coal seam gas waste water, after the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) issued two penalty notices for a total fine of only $3,000. The EPA announced two penalty [...]