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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.
SPEAK OUT AGAINST THIS ATTACK ON OUR AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES.
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.
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.
Sale price will be how much ? No one knows.
What is the real value of the generation assets, the miles and miles of the distribution Grid, and the retail assets of electricity in NSW. The previous Govt sold off the retail outlets and the cost to the consumer went up straight away; WHY? perhaps it was to ensure that ‘investors’ got a return for the money they spent in buying those retail outlets. The cost of production hasn’t gone up yet, but that’s owned by the people. Sell those generating stations and the price will most surely rise. After all, a Private Enterprise Business must make a profit for those it owes money to.
Isn’t it time we took a look at how we use our resources? To benefit the people of our country as much as possible, should be the main objective. Selling assets built and paid for by our community, to some foreign owned company does not seem the way to do that. Profits, and there will be plenty, will be exported overseas, not used to benefit this country.
With countries all over the world deeply in debt, it seems folly to sell assets which create wealth for us, instead of some private ‘investors’ somewhere overseas. I would venture to suggest that all those countries which are having real difficulties with sovereign debt, have sold their income producing assets some time ago. Having no income other than Taxes, they are at the mercy of the international money lenders. We in Australia are heading down that same path. It is a sad state of affairs, but it seems to be the only way our Government can see to go. Is that because of poor advice from the so-called experts, or cunning manipulation of them by the money lenders of the world. Those money lenders constitute only 1% of the population of the world. Corporate greed is an international phenominum, and should be countered by Governments as a matter of urgency.
We can start this action, right here in NSW, by NOT selling our income generating assets. Whatever price we would get would not be enough to provide adequate services of our people at a reasonable price, and all profits would remain a part of our country, not some foreign place over the sea.
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 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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As I enter the bush to answer its call
Leaves filter the sunlight from sensitive eyes,
And on dry grass my boots softly fall
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September 14th 2011 03:13
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Comment by Robert Bruce
on Shake Like A Jelly
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Thanks to you both for your comments and may we all be free of major shakes.
Cheers
Bob