Friends of the Earth media release.

Last night, the Lower House of Parliament passed the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Amendment Bill 2013 (MRSDA).

Friends of the Earth media release.

Friends of the Earth has welcomed today’s announcement by the Premier that the moratorium on the process of unconventional gas fracking will be extended at least until June 2015.

Friends of the Earth media release

Yesterday Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber introduced a motion to the Upper House, which called for a permanent ban on the coal seam gas (CSG) industry in Victoria.

Friends of the Earth media release

Last friday the Premier, Dr Napthine, announced that the government would maintain the current moratorium on the process of fracking to access unconventional gas in Victoria.

Friends of the Earth media release

Peter Reith’s long awaited report to the Victorian government about the eastern gas market will be handed to the government today. While the Premier has not yet said if he will release the report to the public, Mr Reith has made the contents clear in multiple media interviews.

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With the Coalition in power federally, there is already increased pressure nation wide to develop new coal and gas projects. Tony Abbott has promised to cut ‘Green tape’ which might hold up mining projects and other developments. And Federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane has declared that he will ensure that “every molecule of gas that can come out of the ground does so.”

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Agriculture is a cornerstone of Victoria’s economy, producing goods valued at around $9 billion a year.

Gippsland, in particular, acts as a food bowl for Melbourne and overseas consumers. Yet it is being squeezed on all sides, with encroachment from urban sprawl on the west, the prospect of negative impacts from climate change, and the potential for a major expansion of the fossil fuel industry.
 

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The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) has launched its long awaited ‘charm offensive’ in Victoria, with its ‘Lets Grow Victoria’ campaign.

The long awaited Victorian government response to the ‘Inquiry into Greenfields mineral exploration and project development in Victoria’ was tabled this afternoon.

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On Saturday May11, around 180 people attending a public meeting at Seaspray in Gippsland to express concern about the possibility of gas drilling in their area. On Monday evening, Lakes Oil dropped a letter in mailboxes, telling adjacent landowners it would start ‘testing’ at their Wombat 1 drill site the next day, Tuesday May 14.