Sydney water supply will have poisonous chemicals pumped under it for mining coal seam gas

So.............

If they poison the water, everybody will have to leave Sydney. New Zealand would fill up with people!

"Fracking threat

First the mining industry bullied and bluffed its way out of paying more taxes. Now the gas miners propose to pump poisonous rock-dissolving chemicals under our water supply (''Mine threatens city water'', September 24).

In 2006 there was a case of water contamination from fracking in Canada. People got burns and rashes from taking a shower, and when they turned a tap on they could light the water with a match.

It stinks already."

[link to www.smh.com.au]

Sydney people better get complaining if they want to have an unpolluted water supply.

"After her well water was contaminated by nearby fracking in 2006, Ernst decided to go public, showing visiting reporters how she could light her tap water on fire, and speaking out about Alberta land owners’ problems with the industry, especially Calgary-based EnCana. EnCana is Canada’s second biggest energy company (after Suncor) and is now also a major player in British Columbia, with hundreds of natural-gas wells in the province.

Ernst, a biologist and environmental consultant to the oil and gas industry, says EnCana “told us ‘we would never fracture near your water.’ But the company fracked into our aquifer in that same year [2004].” By 2005, she says, “My water began dramatically changing, going bad. I was getting horrible burns and rashes from taking a shower, and then my dogs refused to drink the water. That’s when I began to pay attention.” More than fifteen water-wells had gone bad in the little community.

Oil and gas companies like EnCana, Imperial Oil, Suncor, ConocoPhilips, ExxonMobil, etc., generally don’t do the hydraulic fracturing themselves, but instead hire specialty services to do it. Each of the big players in the multi-billion-dollar fracking industry – Halliburton, Calfrac Well Services, Schlumberger, BJ Services (all of which operate in Western Canada) – has its own recipe for fracking fluids, of which they are fiercely protective. The precise nature and concentrations of the chemicals in these “proprietary fluids” are not even fully known to government regulatory agencies."

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