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
I think we have been given a lot of wishful thinking theories by the mining companies as truth, when it is really only conjecture at best. I really do not believe that CSG is going to do anything for the improvement of climate change at all, it will merely make a fat profit for overseas owned mining companies. At the same time it will probably destroy many thousands of acres of agricultural land, pollute our underground water systems, and generally ruin the landscape wherever the mines were situated.
Harsh words? Yes, but they have to be, because the damage to our country will probably not show until the miners have banked their profits and left. Yes, it is our country which will suffer the consequences of any untoward “accidents”. There is no way any overseas company could possibly compensate us, as Australians, for any losses of clean water, or productive agricultural land. They simply would not have enough money in their collective bank accounts. Therefore, it is in the interests of future generations of Australians that we stop mining Coal Seam Gas now, ‘right NOW’, before any damage can be done.
Let it be said that I am no scientific expert but; I do know that rain falls on top of the ground and finds its way through the soil structure to form underground pools, small and large underground streams, permeates the porous formations of sandstone etc. It may take years for an underground pool to form and streams to run, but nowhere is there any research to say what happens when additional chemicals are added to this underground structure. No time frame for movement from one place to another, no method of reversing any polluting which may occur, and no way of purifying the water used to mine Coal Seam Gas to make it usable again.
Do we really NEED to risk our very landscape for a few years of gas production to make overseas interests rich? ? I would rather look after the agriculture we have now and thus guarantee it will still be there for us all in the future.
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
I think we have been given a lot of wishful thinking theories by the mining companies as truth, when it is really only conjecture at best. I really do not believe that CSG is going to do anything for the improvement of climate change at all, it will merely make a fat profit for overseas owned mining companies. At the same time it will probably destroy many thousands of acres of agricultural land, pollute our underground water systems, and generally ruin the landscape wherever the mines were situated.
Let it be said that I am no scientific expert but; I do know that rain falls on top of the ground and finds its way through the soil structure to form underground pools, small and large underground streams, permeates the porous formations of sandstone etc. It may take years for an underground pool to form and streams to run, but nowhere is there any research to say what happens when additional chemicals are added to this underground structure. No time frame for movement from one place to another, no method of reversing any polluting which may occur, and no way of purifying the water used to mine Coal Seam Gas to make it usable again.
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