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Arrow Coal Seam Gas permit under Brisbane Western Suburbs

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Arrow Energy, now also under your house in the Brisbane Western suburbs…
http://www.goldergis.com.au/csggroundwaterportal/ (tick the CSG lease box to see areas)

A large coal seam gas exploration permit has been granted over a large part of Brisbane’s Western suburbs.

The permit, known as EPP641 is owned by BNG Pty Ltd which is a subsidiary of the large CSG company, Arrow which is, in turn, owned 50-50 by the multi-national corporations, PetroChina and Shell.

Suburbs of Brisbane covered by the EPP include Moggill, Bellbowrie, Anstead, Pullenvale, Pinjarra Hills, Mount Crosby, Karana Downs and Brookfield and the tenement comes within a kilometre or so of Kenmore Village Shopping Centre.

Upstarta Brisbane meetup group – Wed 17 Mar 6.30pm

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As mentioned at the BarCamp Gold Coast IV last weekend, we’re going to do monthly public meetings with Upstarta in Brisbane from next Wednesday. iLab has kindly offered the use of their facilities.

Please join and RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/upstarta-brisbane-qld/

OSDC 2009 – call for papers reminder

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The call for papers for OSDC 2009 is open until 30 June 2009; yes that’s only a few more days. Submit your abstract and do a talk at this fab conference!

This is a grassroots style conference designed by developers for developers.  It covers Perl, Python, Ruby/Rails, PHP, Java/Grails and Open Source operating systems as well as some business aspects.  If you’d like to cover something else as well that is Open Source themed, please feel free.

The Call for Papers can be found at: http://2009.osdc.com.au/call-for-papers
The important dates are:

  • Call for Papers Closes      30 June, 2009
  • Proposal acceptance         20 July, 2009
  • Accepted paper submissions  14 September, 2009
  • OSDC 2009 Main Conference!  25th to 27th November, 2009

OSDC 2009 will be held at the Bardon Conference Center in Brisbane this year. This is a fantastic venue a short drive from the Brisbane CBD, totally surrounded by lush greenery.