AAP General News (Australia)
08-03-2011
NSW:O'Farrell should stop gas drilling: Greens
The NSW Greens say Premier BARRY O'FARRELL should override his energy minister and
stop two coal seam gas exploration licences from being renewed.
The AGL exploration lease at Camden, southwest of Sydney, expired in March while Eastern
Star Gas' lease to drill near Narrabri in the state's north expired yesterday.
The Greens' mining spokesman JEREMY BUCKINGHAM says Energy Minister CHRIS HARTCHER
is out of his depth, and the premier should step in and impose a moratorium on coal seam
gas drilling.
He's seized on comments from Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association
spokesman ROSS DUNN, who told a public hearing in Sydney that good management can't eliminate
the risk of contaminating water aquifers.
AAP RTV saj/tr/jmt
KEYWORD: CSG NSW (SYDNEY)
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