Brief remarks: Mr. Ben JARVIS, Senior Manager
of Coal Seam Gas Regulation, Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, Australia
Research integrity and governance in a contentious policy arena: The case study
of coal seam gas research in Australia
Research integrity and governance in a contentious policy arena: The case study
of coal seam gas research in Australia Presenter: Naomi Smith Devetak, University of Queensland, Australia Co-authors: Deanna Kemp, University of Queensland, Australia; Carol Bond, University of Queensland, Australia
The Office of Water Science is leading the Australian Government's efforts to improve our understanding of the water - related impacts
of coal seam gas and large coal mining development.
Not exact matches
Perth company Underground Services is targeting the
coal -
seam gas sector for further growth on the back
of already burgeoning revenue.
Coal seam gas usually taps out at around 700m due to pressure constraints at depth that prevent the removal of water from the coal s
Coal seam gas usually taps out at around 700m due to pressure constraints at depth that prevent the removal
of water from the
coal s
coal seam.
That deal allows Stanbroke to take control
of 40 QGC properties spread across the heart
of Queensland's
coal seam gas country, from west
of Chinchilla to south - west
of Dalby and help it secure supply
of cattle for its processing business.
The best available science informs the Australian Government's approach to managing the environmental impacts
of coal and
coal seam gas development.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fraccing, for
coal seam gas uses a host
of chemicals; however this type
of mining operation has operated on organic farms where the farmer and company have been able to negotiate suitable arrangements and not compromised the organic integrity
of the property.
NSW will cancel
coal seam gas exploration licences applications covering 43 per cent
of the state as part
of a new plan to regain community support for a few carefully vetted strategic projects.
The release
of Santos» formal response to the 23,000 submissions it received on its $ 3.6 billion Narrabri
coal seam gas project in NSW has spurred another wave
of protests.
The venture has been repeatedly delayed over several years amid changing state regulations for
coal seam gas and a lack
of capital to move forward after the collapse in oil prices.
The release
of Santos» formal response to the 23,000 submissions it received on its $ 3.6 billion Narrabri
coal seam gas project in NSW has s...
To the horror
of anyone concerned about climate change, modern miners want to set fire to these deep
coal seams and capture the
gases this creates for industry and power generation.
Similar examples
of the federal government at work range from the creation
of an industry for producing natural
gas from
coal seams to the ongoing Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E), a small - scale funding agency with outsized ambitions.
The discovery
of high levels
of helium in UK
coal seams could help scientists to monitor the secure recovery
of coal or shale
gas from underground sites.
The top map, produced during the Civil War, shows the «oil district»
of West Virginia, and includes locations
of oil and
gas wells, as well as
coal seams.
She also has held senior project managerial positions on an oil refinery project in Thailand, a
coal seam gas to liquid natural
gas plant in Queensland, Australia, and roles in construction field engineering on a variety
of nuclear power projects.
Scientists think that carbon dioxide could potentially be stored in three types
of underground locations: depleted oil and
gas fields, unminable
coal seams and briny aquifers.
The mining industry has discovered that there are huge reserves
of coal -
seam gas and oil - shale that can be profitably exploited.
The extraction
of coal -
seam gas often involves drilling many wells through aquifers with the potential for the contamination or loss
of water from those resources;.
Most
of that new capacity will be built in Queensland as the
coal -
seam gas (CSG) industry expands.
An unlikely alliance has emerged in some regions, especially in New South Wales and Queensland, between environmentalists and traditionally hostile farmers to oppose the rapid spread
of huge new
coal mines on rich agricultural land and
coal seam gas reserves being accessed by fracking.
Coal to gas: the influence of methane leakage; an interesting paper on how methane leakage from the natural gas industry could prove worse for climate change than burning coal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from coal seam g
Coal to
gas: the influence
of methane leakage; an interesting paper on how methane leakage from the natural
gas industry could prove worse for climate change than burning
coal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from coal seam g
coal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from
coal seam g
coal seam gas).
Recent research has indicated that leakage
of methane into the atmosphere from
gas wells and particularly from
coal -
seam -
gas operations, might do more climate - changing harm even than
coal.
(1) Systems
of monitoring, producing or extracting
gas from solid waste disposal facilities, if the bore hole is a well subject to the act
of July 7, 1980 (P.L. 380, No. 97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, which does not penetrate a workable
coal seam.
-- If a well is drilled at a location where
coal has been removed from one or more
coal seams, the well shall be drilled and cased to prevent migration
of gas or fluids into the
seam from which
coal has been removed in a manner prescribed by regulation
of the department.
-- Injection
of gas for storage purposes in a workable
coal seam, whether or not it is being or has been mined, is prohibited.
In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania for extracting natural
gas from
coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby poisoning some
of the dwindling supply
of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.
The geologists on the job were not surprised at the extraordinary amount
of coal revealed — they commented that every province they had explored for
coal seam gas in Australia, the US, China and India had similar results (as will Antarctica).
Groundwater methane in relation to oil and
gas development and shallow
coal seams in the Denver - Julesburg Basin
of Colorado
Scientists think that carbon dioxide could potentially be stored in three types
of underground locations: depleted oil and
gas fields, unminable
coal seams and briny aquifers.