2011-09-13 Brisbane Times
Gas mine leaking in southern Queensland
Coal seam gas is leaking on a southern Queensland property after a pipe was damaged. Queensland Gas Company senior vice-president Jim Knudsen says the leak, from a five-centimetre crack in a pipe south-east of Miles, is not dangerous.

2011-09-13 Electric Light & Power
Secretary Chu announces $14 million for projects to advance IGCC technology
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the selection of six projects aimed at developing technologies to lower the cost of producing electricity in integrated gasification combined cycle power plants using carbon capture, while maintaining the highest environmental standards.

2011-09-12 ABC [Rural]
NSW Farmers Association gives its wish list to coal seam gas inquiry
The NSW Farmers Association wants landholders to get the right to veto applications for coal seam gas developments on their properties. It's one of more than 32 recommendations to the state inquiry into the CSG industry, which starts next week.

2011-09-01 Big Pond
NSW needs to develop gas - Hartcher
NSW must not become too dependent on renewable energy and needs to develop the gas industry in order to meet demand, says Energy Minister Chris Hartcher.

2011-08-29 Yahoo!7 News
Bligh downplays carcinogens find at CSG site
Premier Anna Bligh says the discovery of chemicals at a coal seam gas (CSG) operation on Queensland's Darling Downs proves the system is working. Arrow Energy has advised regulators small traces of carcinogenic chemicals BTEX have been detected in monitoring bores near Dalby.

2011-08-28 The Sydney Morning Herald
Carcinogens found in CSG project
AAP The Queensland government is investigating a gas field west of Brisbane after the discovery of traces of cancer-causing chemicals at five bores. Benzene, toluene and xylene were discovered during routine tests of 14 bores used to monitor the company's coal seam gas (CSG) dams at the Tipton Wes

2011-07-30 Power Engineering and PEI Magazines
Notts could be at centre of a 'clean coal' breakthrough
AT their peak in the early 1960s the mines of the Nottinghamshire coalfields produced over 14 million tons of coal. With collieries spread from Cotgrave to Clipstone, thousands of miners toiled to keep the nation's fires and power stations burning.

2011-07-14 Mining Weekly.com
Underground coal gasification has key role to play in Southern Africa
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Clean coal energy technologies combined with legislative incentives would complement the development of renewable energy, such as solar, wind and biomass, Coal Wealth Botswana executive director Michael Nightingale said on Wednesday.

2011-09-13 Brisbane Times
Gas mine leaking in southern Queensland
Coal seam gas is leaking on a southern Queensland property after a pipe was damaged. Queensland Gas Company senior vice-president Jim Knudsen says the leak, from a five-centimetre crack in a pipe south-east of Miles, is not dangerous.

2011-09-13 Electric Light & Power
Secretary Chu announces $14 million for projects to advance IGCC technology
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the selection of six projects aimed at developing technologies to lower the cost of producing electricity in integrated gasification combined cycle power plants using carbon capture, while maintaining the highest environmental standards.

2011-09-12 ABC [Rural]
NSW Farmers Association gives its wish list to coal seam gas inquiry
The NSW Farmers Association wants landholders to get the right to veto applications for coal seam gas developments on their properties. It's one of more than 32 recommendations to the state inquiry into the CSG industry, which starts next week.

2011-09-01 Big Pond
NSW needs to develop gas - Hartcher
NSW must not become too dependent on renewable energy and needs to develop the gas industry in order to meet demand, says Energy Minister Chris Hartcher.

2011-08-29 Yahoo!7 News
Bligh downplays carcinogens find at CSG site
Premier Anna Bligh says the discovery of chemicals at a coal seam gas (CSG) operation on Queensland's Darling Downs proves the system is working. Arrow Energy has advised regulators small traces of carcinogenic chemicals BTEX have been detected in monitoring bores near Dalby.

2011-08-28 The Sydney Morning Herald
Carcinogens found in CSG project
AAP The Queensland government is investigating a gas field west of Brisbane after the discovery of traces of cancer-causing chemicals at five bores. Benzene, toluene and xylene were discovered during routine tests of 14 bores used to monitor the company's coal seam gas (CSG) dams at the Tipton Wes

2011-07-30 Power Engineering and PEI Magazines
Notts could be at centre of a 'clean coal' breakthrough
AT their peak in the early 1960s the mines of the Nottinghamshire coalfields produced over 14 million tons of coal. With collieries spread from Cotgrave to Clipstone, thousands of miners toiled to keep the nation's fires and power stations burning.

2011-07-14 Mining Weekly.com
Underground coal gasification has key role to play in Southern Africa
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Clean coal energy technologies combined with legislative incentives would complement the development of renewable energy, such as solar, wind and biomass, Coal Wealth Botswana executive director Michael Nightingale said on Wednesday.