rboiats:
Don’t Frack With our Children’s Future!
Hydraulic fracturing (also called “fracking”), is a method for extracting oil and natural gas from the earth.
Hydraulic fracturing, the growing practice of drilling for the natural gas embedded in shale rock formations deep below the Earth’s surface, is contaminating water in many places. Critics of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, are arguing that the chemicals used in shale gas drilling leak into groundwater supplies. Landowners in shale gas drilling areas have reported foul smells in tap water, and toxic chemicals, such as benzene, have been detected in water from wells near drilling sites. In some cases, tap water can even be set aflame because it is contaminated with volatile chemicals because of shale gas drilling.
So how does this affect us?
The Federal Government has approved three major coal seam gas (CSG) projects in Queensland worth $66 billion. Collectively and under myriad management rules and conditions set down by state and federal government, these three projects alone will drill more 18,000 wells in the coming decades. Overall, the state government expects between 25,000 and 35,000 wells to be drilled.
Australia’s underground water reserves, ancient water held in rocks for millennia the famous Great Artesian Basin may be compromised by too many gas wells operating in the same area, not to mention what this could to to inland lakes and local river systems.
Australians need to wake up to the plans of major mining companies and demand our governments start operating in the interests of this country and it’s citizens.
Enough is enough
rboiATS
