23 Feb 2011
'Fracking' threatens WA water resources
GROUNDWATER resources in the South-West, Mid-West and Kimberley are at risk of being polluted with a cocktails of chemicals from coal seam gas proponents keen to develop an industry here, the WA Greens have warned.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves injecting water, sand and chemicals underground to fracture rock and release coal seam gas.
Mining companies, such as Western Gas and Power, have been granted exploration licences for Wellington Dam near Bunbury, Kaloorup Road near Busselton and Vasse, the Irwin River in the Mid-West and the Canning Basin in the Kimberley
Greens spokesperson Alison Xamon MLC said she is extremely alarmed at what it would mean for our groundwater if this industry ever went ahead.
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I just watch GASLAND and recomend all voting members of the Australian public do so. Its not a case of risk, these extraction methods are guaranteed to do harm, they are guaranteed to pump chemicals into the ground, they are guaranteed to pollute water tables not just with the chemicals used in the process but the natural gas itself. Inform yourselves of our already existing local red zones.
ReplyDeleteConcerned? ....... you bloody well should be!!
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