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• State authorities probe cause for gas leak.

  thewall.com.au | 6:17 am Sep 13, 2011

  • There is a leak in a pipe owned by the Queensland Gas Company south-east of Miles.
  • According to vice-president of the company, Jim Knudsen, the leak is not dangerous.
  • Mr Knudsen further stated that an investigation into the cause of the leak is currently under-way following a report on the matter to the state government regulator and emergency services.

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• Gas mine leaking in southern Queensland

  thewall.com.au | 6:32 am Sep 13, 2011

  Coal seam gas (CSG) is leaking on a southern Queensland property after a pipe was damaged.

  Queensland Gas Company senior vice-president Jim Knudsen says the leak, from a five-centimetre crack in a pipe south-east of Miles, is not dangerous.

  An exclusion zone has been set up while workers fix the leak.

  The leak posed "no significantly adverse environmental or health impact", Mr Knudsen said in a statement on Tuesday.

  The pipe was damaged on Monday near the well's head on a private property at the company's Berwyndale South gas field.

  Mr Knudsen says the state government regulator and emergency services have been told of the leak and an investigation into how it happened is underway.

  He expects the leak to be fixed within two days.

  The Queensland Greens say the leak is further evidence to support a moratorium on coal seam gas projects.

  Greens spokeswoman Libby Connors says despite government audits assuring the public only a small number of wells leak, problems keep occurring.

  Future leaks that may occur in pipes running through populated areas such as Tara in southern Queensland will be disruptive, she said.

  "Some residents of the Tara Residential Estate will have pipelines diagonally intersecting the heart of their properties so the restrictions on movement and activity will be extensive," she said.

  "Imagine the inhibitions on freedom of movement when there are 40,000 wells in place."

• QGC leak site cordoned off

  upstreamonline.com | 4:05 am Sep 13, 2011

  Hess has raised the curtain on a major new standalone development called Equus in deep water off Western Australia that will exploit several trillion cubic feet of gas reserves. breaking news Chevron is putting large oil and gas services players through…

• Sinodinos to fill Senate vacancy

  thepowerindex.com.au | 7:14 am Sep 13, 2011

  Arthur Sinodinos has today been endorsed as the candidate to fill the Liberal Party's vacancy in the Senate, following the departure of former senior minister Helen Coonan last month. Sinodinos, who famously served as John Howard's chief-of-staff and main…

• From chief of staff to Senator: the rise and rise of Arthur Sinodinos

  theconversation.edu.au | 7:41 am Sep 13, 2011

  Arthur Sinodinos has long been mooted as a potential successor to retiring former Howard minister, Senator Helen Coonan.

  Now that Sinodinos – long serving chief of staff to former Primer Minister John Howard – has yielded to pressure from party colleagues to nominate for the casual vacancy created by Coonan’s retirement of the former Howard minister, he will significantly enhance the Liberal brand in his home state of New South Wales.

  It is difficult to think of someone better qualified to sit in the nation’s Upper House.

  
  

  Read the full article at The Conversation.

• 'Time machine' will test affects of fracking

  smh.com.au | 5:46 am Sep 13, 2011
• Gas mine leaking in southern Queensland

  smh.com.au | 7:27 am Sep 13, 2011
• 'Time machine' will test effects of fracking

  smh.com.au | 6:30 am Sep 13, 2011
• WorkSafe Injury Hotspot - Agriculture Sector

  worksafe.vic.gov.au | 11:07 am Sep 13, 2011

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