ALL coal seam gas projects throughout Australia must be abandoned immediately as a matter of urgency. The very act of drilling has produced sinister results at every site and if state governments continue to ignore the grave consequences of drilling, Australia stands to lose prime farming land while simultaneously contaminating our waterways and running the […]
Environmentalists are calling for a moratorium on coal seam gas projects after another contamination at a Queensland site. Australia Pacific LNG reported yesterday that chemicals had been detected in eight exploration wells in the Surat Basin in the state’s west.
BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene) is the same chemical group that infiltrated Cougar Energy’s underground coal gasification site in Kingaroy earlier this year.
Queensland Opposition MP Ray Hopper says he has no faith in the self-regulation process used to assess water quality at coal seam gas (CSG) mines. Environmentalists and residents have repeated calls to end CSG gas extraction after another water contamination scare at a mine west of Miles in Queensland’s southern inland. Traces of banned carcinogenic […]
Farmers near a coal seam gas ”fracking” site in Queensland will have their water supplies tested for toxic benzene and other chemicals today after Origin Energy found contaminated water near drilling sites.
The discovery of BTEX – a mixture of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene – around eight coal seam gas wells near Miles, west of Brisbane, marks the first time a resources company has admitted to contaminating water at a fracking site.
One resident said people had been forced to leave their properties because of stress and related illnesses, including nose bleeds, nausea and vomiting.
Rural lobby group Agforce yesterday mirrored calls for a moratorium on coal seam gas development until better protection was afforded to food production.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 ยป 02:26am Cancer-causing chemicals have been found in eight exploration wells for coal seam gas in central Queensland. Origin and its Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas (Australia Pacific LNG) joint venture partner ConocoPhillips on Tuesday said traces of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX) had been found in the hydraulic fractured […]
Please watch this video of what the gas industry is doing to our prime land, and to our finite water. CSG extraction is NOT the clean green industry that has been widely publicised. It WILL put our water, environment, community and livelihoods at risk. It WILL destroy our Gift of the GAB. As Drew Hutton […]
AUSTRALIAN mining companies are using highly toxic chemicals to extract coal seam gas during the controversial process known as ”fracking”, documents obtained by the Herald show. A government list of 36 chemicals used in coal seam gas extraction in Australia includes hydrochloric and acetic acid, and napthalene- an ingredient once used in napalm as well […]
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