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CSG EXTRACTION

January 9th 2012 22:05

CSG Extraction
Now the potential for polluting of agricultural land and water supplies is beginning to be exposed in the USA. Look at this article in the ABC’s news section and make your own assessment as to whether CSG Extraction in Australia is a viable industry. Really Long Link
It would be a crime against our country to allow such destructive and polluting practices to be continued here. Remember we live on the driest inhabited island on the planet and water is crucial for our very survival. No one knows what pollution will occur, no one knows how long it would last and no one knows what to do to try to restore the pristine condition of our land and water once it has been polluted

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Gas and Agriculture

December 7th 2011 04:15

Gas and Agriculture
It would seem that there are many people now concerned about Coal Seam Gas Mining and its effects on the land and the water in that area. The ABC has even set up a web site specifically for investigating CSG operations, scientific theories and promises made by the mining companies re the safety of CSG mining operations.
Look here for more detailed information:- Really Long Link
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Watch Out - NSW

November 1st 2011 00:09

Watch Out
Watch out NSW, privatising the electricity will guarantee much higher prices than if the whole infrastructure remains State owned. By State Owned I mean owned by the people of NSW, not the office wallahs in Sydney who pose as politicians.
Consider the reality of a sale, bearing in mind that the Generation of electricity makes a profit already, a profit for the NSW people

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Population and Food

October 27th 2011 00:51

Population and food
Isn’t it grand? Our world population will be SEVEN BILLION after the weekend is gone. How are we going to feed that many people ??? Certainly not by digging holes in good farming land to make a fat profit for some greedy wealthy sods who call themselves ‘investors’. Yes, coal seam gas mining is the topic once again. The general population is constantly being told a lot of ‘untruths’ about the effects of CSG mining. They say, as do the pollies who are in their pockets, agriculture and CSG can co-exist with benefits for both. WHAT RUBBISH!!!
CSG mines cut into the very heart of agriculture, they reduce the amount of land available for growing food quite severely for a start. Then, no one knows what damage they will do to the underground water supplies we depend on, nor do they have even the vaguest idea of how long any pollutants they pour into our soil will take to dilute enough to return our water back to somewhere close to what we now have

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Ecology, Agriculture & Coal

October 22nd 2011 00:38

Ecology and agriculture
I have been quiet for a while, reading up on whatever information I cam find about Coal Seam Gas Mining, and open cut coal mining.
The CSG mining companies want to drill 500 holes in the Pilliga State Forest to mine gas. That is bad enough in such an ecologically sensitive area, but in order to harvest the stuff they have to connect all those holes together with pipes to move the gas to where they can liquefy it for export to foreign countries

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False economics

August 27th 2011 06:46

False Economics
Coal Seam gas mining is as false as it can be when it says the miners will care for the environment and the agricultural land in which they are drilling holes. They, the miners, will NOT be able to compensate the country for any loss of agricultural land due to their accidental pollution of either or both the land itself, or the underground water supplies.
Miners think of compensation in terms of the purchase price of the land, but that is not the most worrying problem. It’s the productivity of the land over many years which is the greatest problem. Supposing a 1000 acre farm has an income of $100 thousand a year and that land is polluted for 100 years by the poisons used by the mining company in its operations. What is the real value of compensation which should be paid? A million or so for the current land value as estimated by friends of the mining company, or the loss of productivity for 100 years? I would go for the latter option and I would add to that, all the other income generated by the produce from that farm, Transport, processing, manufacturing, retail sales, and so on. A very difficult task for some number cruncher to work out, but probably in excess of about five times what the farmer’s income would be

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Complaining Convoy

August 22nd 2011 03:13

Complaining Convoy
Well, here we are on Monday the 26th Day of August 2011, and what have we got in our halls of power to give us hope? - - - - - - - - - - - - I thought so; nothing. We have elected 150 representatives to take care of our country for the three year term of Government. What have we got?
We have a minority Government. Labour and Greens, plus a couple of Independents are trying to instill their wishes on the country. The big problem is that the elected members are not in control, the big business enterprises are. The so called ’Power Brokers’ have taken away the rights which Democracy insists belong to the elected members. Only the favoured few elected members have any say at all, the majority are silenced

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GM - Seeds - humans?

July 23rd 2011 03:14

Genetic Modification
Seeds, plants ,bees and other insects, people.
Science keeps telling us how wonderful its abilities are in the genetic modification of seeds. Corn, canola etc. Higher production, lower prices, less cost to produce and so on. However, here we are, years down the track and there is no noticeable difference in anything except the ever increasing cost of the basic items needed to live

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Destruction of OZ

July 12th 2011 23:54

Destruction of Oz

Now we have it all laid for us to see, Carbon Tax. I have listened to recorded speeches, read articles and tried my level best to see how this tax is going to have an effect on Pollution. I can’t see anywhere how this tax is going to do anything except decrease the purchasing power of our income, increase costs unnecessarily, and cause friction amongst our community

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Climate Change Tax

July 12th 2011 23:50

I'm re-posting this poem because it seems relevant still. I first wrote it years ago but the subject matter is news again. [or maybe -- 'still']
Climate is Changing
June 10th 2010 04:42

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