Research // Dimitri Lafleur

The Australia Institute Tasmania The Australia Institute South Australia
Centre for Future Work Carmichael Centre Nordic Policy Centre Centre for Responsible Technology Centre for Sex & Gender Equality
ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA

April 2017

Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Mining

The risk of migratory methane emissions resulting from the development of Queensland coal seam gas

by Dimitri Lafleur and Mike Sandiford

A new report by the Melbourne Energy Institute, commissioned by The Australia Institute, shows that coal seam gas (CSG) extraction could be significantly increasing methane emissions from underground gas deposits. The report raises questions as to the role CSG plays in causing gas bubbles in Queensland’s Condamine River. Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham ignited the bubbling

October 2016

Climate Change, Energy from Fossil Fuels

A review of current and future methane emissions from Australian unconventional oil and gas production

by Dimitri Lafleur, Tim Forcey, Hugh Saddler and Mike Sandiford

A new report by the University of Melbourne Energy Institute has found that unmeasured methane leakage and fugitive emissions from unconventional gasfields could cause Australia to fail its Paris climate commitments. The report, commissioned by The Australia Institute, found that: Several major potential sources of methane emissions are assumed to be zero under Australia’s accounting

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