‘Only the Independents and Queensland Party members understand how useless it is to regulate after environmental harm is caused which is all that the state government’s 600 environmental conditions can do.’
“This community has nowhere else to go.
“They can either resist non-violently or see QGC move onto their properties rendering them unsaleable and forcing them to live cheek-by-jowl with coal seam gas infrastructure the rest of their lives.”
Excellent U.S. interview with Josh Fox, about his journey to discover the truth about coal seam gas drilling.
David Stratton from ‘At The Movies’ interviews Josh Fox, about GasLand
PLEASE NOTE – SHOWING OF GASLAND NOW POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN – It will not be shown tonight, 2.12.2010 – We will advise of new date for showing, when decided. Bylong Valley Protection Alliance invite you for the showing of GASLAND to be shown in the Arec Pavilion, Small Farm Field Days site, Cassillis Rd […]
ENVIRONMENT and Water Minister Tony Burke was warned by his department of “significant concerns” that $35 billion of coal-seam gas projects in Queensland could damage water supplies, cause land subsidence and interfere with reforms in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Advice from the Water Group within Mr Burke’s department said the companies had been “extremely conservative” in their estimates of how much water they would take from the Great Artesian Basin. The minister’s department said it could be “at least 1000 years” before water levels recovered.
Speaking in Brisbane today, Greens leader Bob Brown accused the state and federal governments of greedily pushing ahead with the money-spinning projects without fully understanding the environmental and health impacts.
Senator Brown said he wrote to federal Environment Minister Tony Burke last week calling for a national moratorium on further exploration of coal and coal seam gas.
“Until he knows what the cost is, until he knows what the loss of farmland is, until he knows what the dangers are to the water systems of the Murray Darling Basin,” Senator Brown said.
“The government needs to slow down.
“There are valid concerns from … all across Queensland, (people) who are worried that this state is turning into a quarry for the world’s pollution and not a source of clean energy and a source of food for us and others.”
Mr Armstrong says far less concern is being shown over the risk to the environment, water tables and the health of rural children impacted by the state’s mining bonanza.
“It’s the biggest challenge to face rural Queensland – its industrialisation – for foreign interests,” he said.
“And until (Minister) Robertson and (Premier) Bligh acknowledge that, and stop saying ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ and realise that job re-location is not job creation, the better.
“Growers will be refusing to negotiate with companies that won’t guarantee that there won’t be any effects on our aquifers….”
Article from “Buried Secrets – Gas Drilling’s Environmental Threat”
The APLNG project’s Environmental Impact Statement, recently approved by Queensland’s Coordinator General, states that effects on groundwater in the Walloon Coal Measures, which are used for stock and domestic water supplies and are directly connected to the important Condamine Alluvium freshwater aquifer, are likely to be “widespread and long-term (in the order of 200 years)”.
Coal seam gas will be ‘essential’ for NSW