New Zealand must learn from Queensland's experience with coal seam gas, writes Green Party energy spokesman Gareth Hughes. Drew Hutton, of the Lock The Gate Alliance Australia, recently wrapped up his tour of the country in Gore. On his tour, he warned of a plague sweeping rural Queensland destroying farmland, threatening water supplies, and eroding the communities that rely upon them. That plague is the coal seam gas industry, for which our Government is rolling out the red carpet. Coal seam gas is methane, trapped underground in coal beds by millions of tonnes of water. It is accessed by pumping the water somewhere else. It is similar to shale gas, another source of methane trapped deep...
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