Australia has a new $60 billion-plus industry. Suddenly it seems, coal seam gas is being found everywhere: under homes, under farms, under forests. Communities across the country are up in arms and governments are attempting to balance competing demands for affordable energy with protection of our land and water. Big oil and gas companies hope Australia will soon be the biggest liquid natural gas exporter in the world, but environmentalists and farmers are united in their opposition to coal seam gas extraction, especially on our most fertile agricultural land.
In this account from NewSouth Publishing, journalist and energy expert Paddy Manning unpicks the coal seam gas extraction story, visiting drill sites, boardrooms, pipelines, parliamentary offices and angry farm-gate protests.
Paddy Manning is a senior business writer with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, specialising in energy and agriculture. He previously worked for the Australian Financial Review and The Australian and was founder of Ethical Investor. Highly Commended for Business Journalism in the 2010 Walkley Awards, he is also a three-time winner in the business and personal finance categories of the Citigroup Journalism Awards for Excellence. This is is first book.
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