The term ‘Social Licence’ is getting a lot of air play from activists, not just in the oil & gas sector, but in many sectors,...
The South East of South Australia is the home to some peculiar bunches of Activists associations and hangers on! Over recent months there has been...
The local anti fossil fuel and anti Coal Seam Gas (CSG) Activists have been spreading misinformation again, and trying to sell the results of a...
The headline reads – Councils out of depth over oil drilling The Scare Campaign by the disingenuous Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd and Wilderness Society of South...
Peter Wales, a Kangaroo Island resident and businessman has been following the debate about oil & gas exploration in Australia and in the following article (posted...
A Basic Overview There is much information published about the process of hydraulic fracture stimulation (often called ‘fraccing’ or ‘fracking’) in scientific journals, industry and...
The opinion piece by Sarah Hansen-Young in the Adelaide Advertiser on April 27, along with recent articles in the KI Islander reporting her claims and...
We’ve seen it all before, when the Sydney Morning Herald ignored the facts to promote a green group’s propaganda. We’ve also seen how the Kangaroo...
TNR has previously written about the deceptive pseudo-science of Oceana in an article titled “How can Oceana justify misleading the public” and the falsehoods spread...
Can’t grow food without fertiliser (made from gas)! Can’t transport food without fuel (diesel)! Can’t make vehicles without oil & gas! Can’t get to protest...
The South East of South Australia (SE of SA) has been the focus over the last 4 to 5 years of protests against unconventional and...
Fracking !!! or Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation A Compendium of Studies Demonstrating the Safety and Health Benefits of Fracking Energy in Depth (USA) have compiled an...
During recent months, The Norwood Resource (TNR) has published several articles countering/challenging the misinformation being peddled by the GAB Alliance and the unethical tactics it...
TNR has previously exposed the unethical tactics (eg. deleted comments, commentators being banned from further comment, vilification, etc) used by Oil Free Seas – Kangaroo...
TNR has previously asked the question “Is the eNGO campaign against BP’s Bight drilling program deceptive?“. In that article we demonstrated how the likes of...
During the last week, there has been significant debate in the media about a letter signed by more than 100 Nobel laureates imploring Greenpeace to...
The Norwood Resource (TNR) has previously written about the manner in which KI Council mislead the KI community in an article entitled “Is KI Council...
Over the past couple of weeks, we have seen a heightened profile of the anti fracking and anti unconventional gas activists being reported in the...
Whenever there’s a good news story for South Australia, like BP establishing an exploration drilling supply base in Port Adelaide and formally opening it on...
The following letter, written by Bruce Holland of The Norwood Resource, was published in the Border Watch today, 27 October: “Further to my letter to...
In an earlier article entitled “How quickly does sound attenuate in water?“, I provided a series of graphs to demonstrate the different ways, using logarithmic...
TNR has contributed in a small way to funding the films of Irish freelance reporter Phelim McAleer, which focus on the facts regarding fracking and...
In keeping with their objective to get the facts into the public arena, a meeting convened by the South Australian Department of State Development (DSD)...
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment’s Inquiry into the Register of Environmental Organisations came to Adelaide on 1 September 2015, as part...
This poster about The South East Asian Aerosol Plume was presented by Keith Potts at the conference “Our Common Future Under Climate Change”, commonly referred...
There were a total of 176 submissions to the SA Parliament’s Natural Resources Committee Inquiry into Unconventional Gas (Fracking). Given the fact that the Inquiry...
TNR was pleased to hear about the House of Representatives Environment Committee inquiry into whether eco-charity (eNGO) donations are benefiting the environment. For a long...
TNR recently wrote letters to the Border Watch, the Stock Journal and InDaily, promoting the recent guide produced by the SA Government and Department of...
During the last 10 days, the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has aided and abetted environmental organisations like Pew, IFAW and the Greens in what is...
Many environmental non-government organizations (eNGOs) exist based on half truths, misinformation and erroneous interpretations of selected bits of fact, to basically create a scary story. ...
On 9 February 2015, OFSKI posted two items on their Facebook page. Both of these were highlighted by TNR on their Facebook page to demonstrate...
Following our article entitled “Inconvenient Truths….” demonstrating how OFSKI is suppressing the truth and spreading misinformation on their Facebook page, the torrent of untruths continues. ...
Although I have previously written an article entitled “Do seismic surveys cause whales to strand?”, the recent passionate and vitriolic claims by eNGOs that strandings...
Having heard rumblings about the hate campaigns adopted by OIL free SEAS_Kangaroo Island (OFSKI – and their previous incarnations) to suppress balanced debate on oil/gas...
It appears that the current campaign being waged by Greenpeace NZ is at best hysterically misinformed and, at worst, deliberate deception. Greenpeace’s claims about the...
The Norwood Resource welcomes the release on 30 September 2014 of the Report (which is the ‘Final Report of the Independent Review of Coal Seam...
The Norwood Resource wholeheartedly defends the right of individuals and groups to protest or lobby against perceived or actual injustice. However, those that do protest...
The Carbon Tax (price) was ‘axed’ on the 17th July 2014 with an effective date from 1 July 2014. The carbon tax (price) was one...
The petition by Clean Ocean Action (COA) is yet another example of signatories being misled in order to secure their support. Ironically, they are using...
The petition currently being run by the Endangered Species Coalition and supported by “Deep Sea Oil Free NZ”, is an attempt to prevent seismic surveys...
The tabulation below has been prepared to address the often confusing claims made by environmental groups such as Oceana and Wild Migration regarding the loudness...
An article by Oceana back in September 2013 made me consider how they can justify publishing such misinformation and distortion of the facts and science...
Further to our article entitled “How Dependent is Society on Oil?” this article summarises the current importance of natural gas in our daily lives. In...
Have you ever stopped to consider how important crude oil, which generates a myriad of petroleum products, is in our daily lives? Quite apart from...
There are many reasons why we are bombarded with ideological propaganda in the guise of science, given the information age we live in, but the...
A Basic Overview There is much information published about the process of hydraulic fracture stimulation (often called ‘fraccing’ or ‘fracking’) in scientific journals, industry and...
This article is a follow-up to my article in which I discussed the manipulation of science by environmental groups (eNGOs) and some researchers. It was...
I have read many submissions by environmental groups (eNGOs) protesting against seismic surveys which, given the content, certainly suggests manipulation is happening. As this is...
Attenuation of sound in water in this article is defined as the way in which sound intensity levels decrease with distance. As this is a...
The article in the KI Islander calling the community to a rally on Sunday 22 December 2013, contains a number of significant inaccuracies and misrepresentations...
SA Senator Penny Wright’s recent speech and motion in the Senate obviously did not make much of an impression. Only 2 senators voted for the...
Environmental groups and others claim that they do (or can)! However, there is absolutely no evidence to support their claims while, in fact, there is...
Concerns are often raised by environmentalists about the impact of offshore seismic surveys on whales and dolphins. However, there is no evidence from over four...
The sound levels of breaching whales can be found in published literature. In a paper published by APPEA, and based on published information, we can see...
Definitely not!! This is invariably claimed by most environmental groups (eNGOs) but it is another way in which they distort the facts and spread misinformation....
Presentation to the 2013 Credit Suisse Coal Seam Gas Conference, 13 November 2013, by David Paterson, Emergent Advisory* Good morning. It is a great pleasure...
This is one of the key concerns raised by environmental groups (eNGOs) and some regulators. In fact, eNGOs often make comments such as “Noise from...
Contrary to the claims of many environmental groups (eNGOs), the sound levels generated in the vicinity of seismic surveys are not audible “24 hours per...
Contrary to the claims of many environmental Non-Government Organisations (eNGOs), any changes to normal behavioural patterns are either non-existent or minimal (such as slight course...
It’s a little known fact that the sound of calving/cracking/colliding Antarctic icebergs can be recorded on seabed acoustic loggers deployed on the edge of Australia’s...
APPEA 2013 Transforming our Energy Future The Hon. Gary Gray AO MP Minister for Energy and Resources Brisbane, Queensland, 27 May 2013 Introduction I would like...
In reference to the claims various groups make in the media about a number of issues in the resources sector, the Australian Federal Energy Minister,...
South Australia is on the cusp of a huge economic adrenalin shot with a billion dollars of major oil & gas exploration development in the...
Predictable, unsubstantiated, scary and misleading claims by some environmental groups do little to inform public debate about the benefits of seismic surveying work in the...
SA Parliamentary enquiry regarding “fracking” in SA simply more unfounded myths propagated by activists
The Norwood Resource (TNR) has a mission to get the facts about the impact of oil & gas (petroleum) exploration and production impact upon the...