Events 2018

Every Friday - Sydney Knitting Nannas & Friends Vigil
11am - 1pm 52 Martin Place, Sydney


August 8 Wednesday - Water is Life Contamination is Death Action
12 noon to 1pm - 1 Macquarie Place, Sydney
https://www.facebook.com/events/276611119563633

August 12 Sunday - City to Surf
Gabrielle Upton's office - 330 New South Head Road in Double Bay shopping precinct (train to Edgecliff and walk down hill to Double Bay or
Malcolm Turnbull's office - 287-289 New South Head Road Edgecliff - close to Edgecliff Station.
10.50am the road is blocked off to Double Bay but you should be able to get from the station to Turnbulls office all day. Check the course details at www.city2surf.com.au

August 15 Wednesday - Defend Your Right to Protest
8.30 - 10.30 outside NSW Parliament
www.facebook.com/events/221015491844126/

August 15 Wednesday - Coal Seam Gas & Public Health Conference
2pm - 8.30pm Crossing Theatre Narrabri
Limited free accommodation available. https://nwprotectionadvocacy.com/?page_id=186
Kathy going

August 21 - 23 Tuesday to Thursday - Agquip
Gunnedah.
Join Knitting Nannas from Northern Rivers
https://fairfaxruralevents.com.au/agquip/home/

August 22 Wednesday - The Bentley Effect 
6.30 to 9.30pm Bronte Surf Life Saving Club
https://www.facebook.com/events/2054378204829918/

August 24 Friday - Bushdance for the Pilliga
Newcastle
https://www.facebook.com/events/269789190460388/

September 1 Saturday - Taste of Coogee Festival
8am Coogee Oval, Brook Street

September 7-9 - Knitting Nanna's Conference
Glen Rock Scout Camp, Rifle Road, Whitebridge

September 15 Saturday - Koala Fest Kurrajong
10am - 2pm Memorial Park
https://www.facebook.com/events/248308772612766/

October 21 Sunday - Marrickville Festival

October 25 Thursday APA AGM

November 2-4 Friday - Sunday Spring into Pilliga

NSW Ministers offices
Gladys Berejiklian - Premier - 280 Willoughby Road, Naremburn
Niall Blair - Minister for Primary Industries MLC - 52 Martin Place - entrance Phillip St
Don Harwin - Minister for Resources, MLC - 52 Martin Place - entrance Phillip St
Anthony Roberts - Minister for Planning, 215 Victoria Road, Gladesville
Gabrielle Upton - Minister for the Environment, 330 New South Head Rd, Double Bay
Brad Hazzard - Minister for Health, 637-641 Pittwater Road, Dee Why
Matthew Kean - Minister for Innovation & Regulation, 25-29 Hunter Street, Hornsby
Planning Department - 320 Pitt St

Marginal Seats Liberal
Glen Brooks - East Hills, 20 Reevsby Place, Reevesby
Noltey Smith - Coogee
Stuart Ayres - Penrith

Opposition
Luke Foley - Auburn - 92 Parramatta Rd, Lidcombe
Adam Searle - MLC - Shadow Minister for Industry, Resources & Energy -Parliament House
Michael Daly - Shadow Minister for Planning, 806 Anzac Parade Maroubra
Penny Sharpe - MLC Shadow Minister for Environment - Parliament House
Mick Veitch - MLC Shadow Minister for Primary Industries - Parliament House
Chris Minns - Shadow Minister for Water, 22- 24 Regent Street Kogara

Marginal Seats Labour
Jodi McKay - Strathfield - 36 - 38 Victoria St, Burwood
Julia Finn - Granville - 160 Merrylands Rd, Merrylands
Steve Kamper - Rockdale - 478 Princes Highway, Rockdale
Dr Hugh McDermott - Prospect - 679 The Horsely Drive Smithfield

Will you help us to save your EDO?

After nearly 30 years of helping the people of NSW to protect their environment and heritage under the law, EDO NSW faces an unprecedented threat to its survival and we need your help to ensure we can continue to assist you in public interest environmental matters. Please read on to better understand the problem and what you can do to help.

Groundwater depletion as El Nino returns

The Liberal Party may have a clever media strategy but broken promises will not be ignored; the Green’s Jeremy Buckingham reports on a Frack Finding Tour of the US; and as the NSW government gives mining companies permission to deplete our groundwater is El Nino back?

Responsible Mining Bill

The Green’s Responsible Mining Bill aims to empower councils to make the final decision about mining and gas development and to introduce no-go zones where mining, gas and other extractive industries will not be permitted including

Licence renewals, Strategic Land Use Policy released

Dart Energy's PEL 460 which covers the southern area of Putty has now been offered for renewal by the NSW Government along with many other expired petroleum exploration licences. The government has also quietly released the final version of the Strategic Land Use Policy.

Court interrupts Fullerton Cove drilling

Fullerton Cove NSW courtesy of Callum Rigby

A COURT has ordered Dart Energy to temporarily halt test drilling for coal seam gas (CSG) at Fullerton Cove, near Newcastle, but the energy firm says it may still be able to keep to its timetable. Fullerton Cove residents applied to the Land and Environment Court for a temporary injunction to stop drilling at the site as they prepare for a court battle in which they will try to have the project spiked altogether.

CSIRO rejects mining industry claims about CSG

Gas well at Camden

CSIRO rejects the claim made in a television commercial aired on Sunday 2 September that ‘CSIRO [and government studies] have shown that groundwater is safe with coal seam gas’.

At no time has CSIRO made such a statement, and nor do the results of CSIRO research support such a statement.

‘No water, it ain’t worth nothin’

Residents in Butler County, Pennsylvania share their fracking experience. Film shared courtesy of Nature Abounds' friend Rich Waters, a local photographer and videographer who is documenting how fracking is changing the lives of his neighbors in Southwest Pennsylvania. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUyuFjx0IU&feature=share

Mining threat to Great Artesian Basin

The Great Artesian Basin and the Great Barrier Reef are called great for a reason. They are the largest of their kind in the world. Coal seam gas extraction has the potential to ruin both these Australian greats. 

The Great Artesian Basin (GAB), the country’s only permanent inland water, underlies a quarter of Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth.

Public servants gagged

Putty Creek in flood February 2012

In late May I had a dream that I was in a library looking up something to do with coal seam gas and someone approached me to join a meeting. Over 60 people were at the meeting and they were all anti CSG campaigners who worked in the public service and had been told they would lose their jobs if they continued campaigning against it, or they were people without permanent Australian residency and were threatened with deportation.

Solar energy - it works for me

Recently, when a guest was reluctant to plug a new laptop into a power socket in our house, I realised just how little people understand solar energy. Yesterday, Harvey Norman announced that it had placed a substantial order for user-friendly solar panels to supply to customers in addition to kitchens, bathroom items, hot water and air conditioning systems.

Perhaps people’s perception of solar is about to change! 

Australia to lose environmental protection

The koala was recently listed as a nationally threatened species, but now the federal
government plans to hand its legal powers over to the states, placing the koala and its habitat
at risk. Koala and joey photo: WRD-073 © Dave Watts / Lochman Transparencies

Not content with putting pressure on the state government, big business and the mining industry have broadened their attack to our federal environment laws. Following intense industry lobbying, federal and state governments have recently announced an aggressive plan to wind back critical environmental protection laws that protect our land, water and wildlife.

Fullerton Cove Pilot Project Approved

The NSW Government has given Dart Energy approval to drill pilot coal seam gas wells north east of Newcastle. Local residents are concerned about contamination of nearby RAMSAR listed wetlands, the Hunter River estuary and the Tomaree Sands groundwater system which is a component of their water supply. This is compounded by the history of earthquakes and floods in the area.

Great Barrier Reef threatened



Courtesy of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

UNESCO’s report on the Great Barrier Reef says ‘The rapid increase of coastal developments, including ports infrastructure is of significant concern. The property further lacks an overall plan for the future sustainable development of the reef that will lead to protection of Outstanding Universal Value in the long-term’.

It goes on to ‘requests the State Party to not permit any new port development or associated infrastructure outside of the existing and long-established major port areas within or adjoining the property, and to ensure that development is not permitted if it would impact individually or cumulatively on the Outstanding Universal Value of the property’.

Gas leak in Condamine River



Chinchilla

Lock the Gate investigators have discovered coal seam gas bubbling to the surface along a five kilometre stretch of the Condamine River near Chinchilla in Queensland.

Dart’s share drop and community consultation

On May 23, 2012 Dart Energy shares dropped to 16 cents and the ASX sent them another price query.

Where will Dart drill in Sydney?

While speculation mounts on where Dart Energy will drill for coal seam gas in Sydney, the UK Government rejects shale gas as a solution to Britain’s energy crisis and Dart’s shares drop to 19.5 cents.

Video and media links

The NSW Government say there will be a gas shortage while BHP Billiton say they have plenty in Bass Strait. Videos of Save the Great Barrier Reef, 7000 march against coal seam gas in Lismore and the Protect our Water, Protect our Land rally in Sydney.

Our environmental laws are under attack

Wollemi National Park - B Kearns

Right now, developers and mining companies are lobbying to weaken essential environmental protections and public participation rights in the planning system in order to get fast-tracked development approvals.

Dart Energy's latest reports

Dart Energy shares are down to 24 cents. Dart announces that it will not drill in St Peters and their quarterly report doesn’t mention PEL 460 where Putty is located.