Oz producers launch pro-CBM campaign

Safe and clean: Santos supplies treated coalbed methane water to Mt Hope Station in Queensland

Safe and clean: Santos supplies treated coalbed methane water to Mt Hope Station in Queensland

Australia’s coalbed methane gas producers have launched a new publicity campaign to counter "a Green movement intent on stopping the Australian community’s use of hydrocarbon fuels".

“Natural coal seam gas. It’s cleaner. It’s safer. It’s jobs. It is the future,” is the name of the campaign, and it aims to inform the public that the CBM industry is providing jobs, cleaner energy and energy security. 

“There is a co-ordinated, well-resourced campaign underway by the Green movement and fringe activists to spread untruths and myths about natural CSG production throughout rural and regional communities," said the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA).

“The Greens and partner activists are driven by ideology that has scant regard for the future of…

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