Latest news on gas

ExxonMobil has announced their Decommissioning Project for South Gippsland: a plan to partially remove 13 decaying gas rigs from Bass Strait and break them apart amongst the RAMSAR listed wetlands of Corner Inlet. All...

The Victorian Government has handed down their rental reforms following a public consultation process held earlier this year into the energy and safety standards in rentals and rooming houses. We want to love it...

Seismic blasting multinational TGS announced this morning that they have decided not to proceed with the Otway blasting plan, withdrawing from NOPSEMA assessment. Under the proposal, TGS were to blast the Otway Basin off...

Media reports today that Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has “backflipped” on a ban on cooktops are inaccurate and an unhelpful distraction from gas heaters which guzzle half of the gas used in Victoria and...

The Victorian Government is proposing a series of reforms to improve energy efficiency for the one third of househoulds in Victoria that are rental properties. Friends of the Earth Melbourne encourages everyone - particularly...

About a third of the gas used domestically in Australia is used in Victoria, and of that about half is burned on heating buildings, many of which are inefficient. And rental homes are some...

[Image credit: Michael J Fromholtz] Friends of the Earth Melbourne has today slammed the Victorian Government decision to approve Beach Energy's production of gas from near the Twelve Apostles off the Otway coast.

Friends of the Earth Melbourne encourages everyone - particularly renters in Victoria - to write a submission for the draft Regulatory Impact Statement on Minimum Standards for Rental Properties and Rooming Houses. Submissions are due...

Big changes are proposed to make the Victorian gas pipeline system harder to connect to, easier to disconnect from and make distribution companies more accountable. MAKE AN EASY SUBMISSION BEFORE 5PM THURSDAY 21 DECEMBER!

Friends of the Earth Melbourne welcomes the release today of the second edition of the Victorian Gas Substitution Roadmap (VGSR).