Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is over 80 times more powerful than C02 at trapping heat over a 20-year period. The gas industry promotes gas as being natural and clean, and people might easily forget that gas is a fossil fuel.
Tag Archives: Gas
Call to action for North West Shelf
Not long after the Nannas watched the must see documentary Corals Last Stand, the Environment Minister, Murray Watt, announced Labor’s approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export facility at Karratha, Western Australia.
Action of the Week 3 August 2025
Sydney Knitting Nannas invite you to join us in welcoming politicians back to the NSW parliament for their next sitting. We’ll have speakers on coal mining, native forest logging and saving our water resources. We’re inviting the pollies to come and talk about their plans and hopes.
Action of the Week 28 July 2025
We know it’s been a long way to the top for Albo – but now we want to see him go harder and faster on climate action! That means no new gas or coal mines and more wind and solar. It also means quickly fixing the environment laws.
Help Narrabri Lateral Pipeline be assessed properly
Santos wants approval for the Narrabri Lateral Pipeline, which links the Narrabri Gas Project to the Hunter Gas Pipeline and the east coast gas network. We have been expecting they would lodge an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) – it is after all a high pressure pipeline requiring a 30m clearing for 60km – a lotContinue reading “Help Narrabri Lateral Pipeline be assessed properly”
Middle Arm in Darwin Harbour is our fight too
The PM could help Territorians develop renewables and sustainable jobs with the $1.5b announced as equity support for the atrocious Middle Arm project in Darwin Harbour.
Media release – NSW Police challenge Rising Tide Blockade
Knitting Nannas are disappointed that the NSW Supreme Court has found in favour of the NSW Police Force in rejecting Rising Tides application for a Form 1 for the People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port, Newcastle/Muloobinba.
Santos Narrabri Gas & Hunter Gas Pipeline Update
Santos has unwittingly managed to bring a diverse group of people together to fight against their Narrabri Gas Project and its proposed pipelines to Newcastle. Here’s an update.
Gasbusting
Do you know how harmful gas is to you and your children’s health? With new Councils being elected on Saturday 14 September, now is the time to insist that your council join others and ban new gas connections.
Earthquakes, seismic activity and gas
Shortly before 6am this morning a 4.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at a depth of 5km, 15km southwest of Muswellbrook. An initial earthquake (magnitude 4.8) on August 23 led the Nannas to ask “How dangerous are these quakes to gas infrastructure – especially pipelines?”