“Why should our ratepayers be threatened with legal action, why should their lives be disrupted, why should our beautiful farming lands be ruined, and why should we have to put up with this because of government’s gross mismanagement?” Ms Humphries said.
“We have this dreadful meddling from governments that have grossly mismanaged the whole economy and I understand they need the mineral resources to balance the books.
But in 20 years’ time there’s no point in having the books balanced and the people starving, it’s ridiculous.”
“These companies are threatening to force into court landowners who don’t wish to have these companies on their property,” he been said yesterday.
With total entitlements in the Eastern Recharge Groundwater Source currently exceeding 32,000 ML/yr, the Eastern Recharge Groundwater Source is classified as a high risk of over-extraction. If everyone extracted water to the level of their licensed entitlement, there would not be enough water for all existing water users and to protect the groundwater source in the medium to long term.
“We have the largest pure water source in the world. In fact, the Great Artesian Basin covers a vast area of our land mass (almost one quarter in total), and Australia is one of the few countries where it is safe to drink the tap water at home. How can we even consider putting our fresh water supply at risk?”
University of Queensland study into the risks posed to groundwater and aquifer systems by the development of the coal seam gas and LNG industry in Queensland.
Contributors: Dr Marion Carey MB, BS (Hons), MPH, FAFPHM, FRSPH, Senior Research Fellow, Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University
Professor Peter Doherty AC, FRS, FAA, Laureate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne, Michael F. Tamer Chair of Biomedical Research at St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital and Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine
Professor Anthony J McMichael AO, MB, BS, PhD, FAFPHM, FTSE, (US)NAS. Professor of Population Health, Australia National University, and Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Human Health, University of Copenhagen
Dr Helen Redmond MB, BS, FAFRM, RACP, Staff Specialist, Rehabilitation Medicine, Fairfield Hospital, Sydney
Dr. David Shearman PhD, MB, ChB, FRCPE, FRACP, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide
Dr. John Sheridan PSM, BSc (Med), MB, BS, PhD, FAFPHM, formally Communicable Diseases Epidemiologist, Queensland Health
JHillierfinaldoc Report by John Hillier, consulting hydrogeologist.
A complete consideration of all emissions from using natural gas seems likely to make natural gas far
less attractive than oil and not significantly better than coal in terms of the consequences for global warming.
In aquifers overlying the Marcellus and Utica shale formations of northeastern Pennsylvania and upstate New York, we document systematic evidence for methane contamination of drinking water associated with shalegas extraction.
National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training