Andrei.Hicks wrote on Oct 21^st, 2013 at 5:32pm:



Really Andrei?.

Tell me how you can fix a damaged underground aquifer that
is now supplying radioactive & chemically polluted water?

It is a total lie to call any gas derived from Hydraulic Coal Seam Gas extraction as "NATURAL". This is an industry that ai all about quick export profits at the expense of private property rights & the environment. There is no scientific procedure known to man that can control the movement of gas & the water contaminated with toxic chemicals from moving through the earth once the fracture is made. These wells have a 1 in 5 failure rate from new & have greater failure rates as they age .... up to 25 %. Do some research on what's going on in the US. It's an environmental catastrophe ...... look what has happened in Colorado with the flooding of gas wells(1000's of them) built on flood plains. We will definitely know what living in an arid country is if the Great Artesian Basin is compromised/contaminated by this stupid process. Fracking should not be allowed to happen anywhere near Gloucester nor in what's left of any agricultural land in the Hunter Valley. What agricultural land we are not selling to the Indonesians, Indians, Chinese & Arabs for their food security(not ours) we are setting up for destruction from CSG exploitation. Short term gain = long term pain. Fracking is not & never will be green energy. It is a far bigger polluter than coal mining & produces far far more emissions of green house & other dangerous colourless & odourless gases.

..It is a total lie to call any gas derived from Hydraulic Coal Seam Gas extraction as "NATURAL".


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Nothing is natural.
Deep sea drilling and extraction is also not natural - we still do it.

You want energy?

Then we have to go and get it.

Its not the job of us as a company to ask Australians what they want.

We're not the Government and we don't answer to the people. We answer to laws and we answer to our shareholders.

We work WITH the AU Government who set down regulations that we need to fulfill and which we do.

Don't think for a moment, safety and the envionrment is not at the forefront of our concern. They are posters in our offices reminding us of the job we have to do to leave the planet in the way we should.

Australians though want cheaper energy - fracking is a way to get that.

We didn't say they want it.

If you asked Australians if they want deep-sea drilling off the shores off Australia - which we are doing right now - reckon they will say yes?

If you asked Aussies if they want us to drill anywhere near them - reckon they say yes?

However listen to the nation scream and squeal with they try and turn on the lights or start their cars and they dont work because you have no fricken power....

Let me guess - its alright to do it elsewhere though?

You want gas? You want cheap energy? Then STFU and let us drill for it and we'll get it.

perceptions_now wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2013 at 12:11am:



Andrei doesn't care if the water supply from aquifers is ruined
for the next 10,000 years as long as money goes into his pocket now.

Greed is good - or so they say.

I'm not sure about other places in Australia but the Victorian Liberal government will not approve any fracking at the moment.

I'd have to say that I totally agree with Bobby and Gnads that it looks like these greedy international companies are prepared to poison our water supplies just to take a quick buck out of our country then leave us with the mess which will end up costing us Billion.

We'd have to be insane to let this happen in our country.

Lock the Gate Alliance is a huge social movement against coal seam gas exploration.

They have been successful in stopping three major projects in their tracks in northern NSW. People from all walks of life have joined the march against CSG, there's no left or right here, politics doesn't enter into it, it's about the future of our country.

To date 18,000 wells have been approved in Qld with tens of thousands more to come.

Who will benefit from this rape of scenic, agricultural and heritage land? The destruction of our underground and above ground water? The destruction of farming land, our cattle industry? Who will benefit?

Very few. The gas is exported, Australians will continue to pay high prices for gas.

All the mining in Australia employs 2% of the workforce, so there's few jobs coming out of it.

The CSG and other mining industries will occupy 53% of Australia within the next few decades, that's 17 times the size of Great Britain.

This is Greed Inc. gone mad.

Watch this video if you have children or grand children growing up in this country. You will be shocked at the sheer enormity of CSG operations in Australia.