Australian Politics Forum - Is The Water Safe To Drink, Or Not?.

Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 84592 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: Is The Water Safe To Drink, Or Not?. Reply #15 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 9:54am Not much different here. I bring loads of tank water in from the farm for cooking, coffee and stuff. Town water goes for washing up, toilet etc.
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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: Is The Water Safe To Drink, Or Not?. Reply #16 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 10:53am I work in the industry and my main area of growth reporting for ANZ region is through shale gas. The strides made in safet, leakage reduction and safe streamlined delivery are all hugely ahead of industry safety standards. It will deliver increased energy supply within Australia.
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Reply #17 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 11:07am

But, Andrei - well over 90% of it is going to overseas buyers - not to the Australian market, and prices of gas are already predicted to rise as a result of shale gas procurement.

Not sure how that works, but that's what I read.

Point being, regardless - your gas is not going to the Australian market first and thus lowering our cost of living - it is going to export and the pockets of the producers ONLY.

The shale gas project at Narrabri will feed - apart from the export terminal at Newcastle - the village of Wellington - 4000 people. Maybe good for Wellington - but what about much larger Newcastle?

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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 84592 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: Is The Water Safe To Drink, Or Not?. Reply #18 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 11:11am I think the water under discussion is the ordinary town water (yuk) - not sure about the shale gas thing up there.
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Reply #19 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 4:53pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 24^th, 2014 at 10:53am:

I work in the industry and my main area of growth reporting for ANZ region is through shale gas.
The strides made in safet, leakage reduction and safe streamlined delivery are all hugely ahead of industry safety standards.

It will deliver increased energy supply within Australia.

Complete nonsense Andrei .. the energy/gas is for export ... it is being exploited by foreign interests & profits.

It figures you're in the industry. Roll Eyes

The very same companies that are exploiting hydraulic fracked gas in the US are here in Australia as well as Poms.

So the technology is the same .... & it's causing massive environmental problems in the USA.

Which of course the industry denies .... but it's a fact .... the world environments where this practise is running amok will pay for a long time because of hydraulic coal/shale seam fraccking.

The process of extraction is about as "unnatural" as can be imagined .... so it's a complete lie to call it "NATURAL" gas.

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Reply #20 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 5:02pm

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jan 24^th, 2014 at 11:11am:

I think the water under discussion is the ordinary town water (yuk) - not sure about the shale gas thing up there.

Yes it's town water Grappler .... but the locals(townies) don't drink it anyway ...... the gas is coal seam gas extracted by a process called "gasification".

http://www.sixdegrees.org.au/content/underground-coal-gasification-plants-must-a...

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Reply #21 - Jan 25^th, 2014 at 4:13pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 24^th, 2014 at 10:53am:

I work in the industry and my main area of growth reporting for ANZ region is through shale gas.
The strides made in safet, leakage reduction and safe streamlined delivery are all hugely ahead of industry safety standards.

It will deliver increased energy supply within Australia.

To those who aren't killed by methane in the air and their water supply?

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