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Gasfield Free Seaspray reports: "After weeks of surveying by our tireless volunteers we can declare that 98% of Seaspray residents want our patch to remain gas field free! To celebrate we're making a HUGE...

Most of Gippsland’s farmland is under exploration for coal, Coal seam gas (CSG), Tight or Shale gas. The Energy Minister Nick Kotsiras has the power to declare any land off limits to coal and...

Canadian gold miner Crocodile Gold is pressing ahead with the development of the Big Hill open pit project at Stawell in western Victoria. The company has started the process of getting approval from the...

People representing the 73 percent of Australians who support the Renewable Energy Target and 76 percent who support more wind energy, will rally at Garema Place in Canberra, midday today. They will call on...

Just three weeks after Premier Napthine opened the Macarthur wind farm, a coalition of southwest Victorian and supporting groups have released a joint statement calling on the Premier to rewrite anti-wind farm planning laws...

In 2012, community concern about the threat of new coal and gas operations, especially coal seam gas (CSG), pushed the state government to ban the use of dangerous BTEX chemicals and place a moratorium...

An alliance of 59 groups has called on the Victorian government to ban all new on-shore coal and un-conventional gas operations until there has been a thorough investigation into the likely impacts of this...

Victorians must decide what type of energy future we want: ·    more dirty, coal fired power and the threat of coal exports, or ·    more renewables like wind, solar, wave energy and geothermal Ted...

The Old Drouin Butter Factory Theatre is set to host the Gippsland premiere of a new independent documentary called C, which looks at the impacts of controversial coal seam gas mining. Drouin launch: May...

Following the Royal Commission into the Black Saturday bushfires, the targets for controlled burning have been increased, and subject to considerable criticism by many environmentalists. Because of the way community fear of fire risk...