News and Events:

The State Government must come clean about its cover-ups of pollution incidents involving both coal seam gas and underground coal gasification projects in the Surat Basin. In the latest incident in Kogan Creek, landholders had alerted the Bligh Government to mercury levels 5 times the acceptable limit in January, but departmental officers did not respond until July. That is plainly unacceptable.

Six Degrees spokesperson on coal seam gas Drew Hutton said these incidents had followed one after another so that a pattern of cover-up and complicity was clear.

A spontaneous community protest has interrupted Julia Gillard’s climate change announcement at the University of Queensland this morning.

The policies being proposed by the ALP this morning will not prevent the construction of new coal fired power stations around the country, and will not bring down Australia’s greenhouse pollution.

On the 19th July, Six Degrees and Friends of the Earth spokesperson Drew Hutton was interviewed by Steve Austin from 612 ABC Radio. The interview outlines the full extent of the risk to some of Australia's best farming land from the range of coal extractive industries.

Listen to the interview here. 

Six Degrees demands that the Queensland State Government impose immediately a moratorium on all further coal seam gas (or CSG) development until it can be unequivocally demonstrated that they will not have unacceptable social and environmental impacts. These include the risks to freshwater supplies in shallow aquifers and to the structural integrity of the Great Artesian Basin.

Find out why here.