Jeremy Buckingham, NSW Greens MP, has set fire to methane gas bubbling out of the Condamine River in Queensland and has a video of the event on Facebook.

Is this the action of a devoted environmentalist or a dill desperate for publicity?

Is Mise,

And you're not particularly interested in the fact that a river encircled by CSG operations can actually be set on fire?

Of course he did it to publicise the environmental aspect.

Since when did setting fires exhibit 'environmental awareness'?

It was a shameless, misleading political stunt from the headline hunting Greens 'Protest' Party. Here, from the always green left sensitive ABC that always tries to put the best spin on Greens' stunts and never asks the Greens any awkward questions,

<Professor Damian Barrett, the CSIRO's lead researcher into unconventional gas, has been monitoring the Condamine gas seeps.

The isotopic signature is telling us it's coming from coal at that point in the landscape but coal is quite close to the surface and there's a naturally existing small fault line, which cuts the river at that point," he said.

He said research over the past 12 months showed the rate of the flow was increasing.

Origin Energy, which operates CSG wells in the district, has also been monitoring the bubbling.

"We're aware of concerns regarding bubbling of the Condamine River, in particular, recent videos demonstrating that this naturally occurring gas is flammable when ignited," a statement from the company said.

"We understand that this can be worrying, however, the seeps pose no risk to the environment, or to public safety, providing people show common sense and act responsibly around them.

"Ongoing research has identified several scenarios that could be contributing to the seeps including the natural geology and faults (formed tens-of-millions of years ago), natural events such as drought and flood cycles as well as some human activity, which includes water bores and coal seam gas operations.">

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-23/condamine-river-bubbling-methane-gas-set-alight-greens-mp/7352578

Let him alone. At least he isn't out pushing the grooming of kids or encouraging rapist to immigrate to Europe like other members of his party. Let him carry on with his childish stunts.

Human Headline Greens, "It's a conspiracy".

That appeals to the demographic the Greens are chasing.

The CSIRO has come out strongly to say that it is extremely unlikely that the methane seepage has anything to do with the CSG plants nearby. Apparently methane seepages are common near large coal seams such as those exploited by CSG companies.

The science is in! It looks as though Jeremy Buckingham's cheap political stunt has gone up in flames (sic) leaving him looking like a scientific ignoramus.