Thank you again Bradley : community@buruenergy Picture of amanda walsh Dear Mr Jon Ford (General Manager Community Affairs), I read with interest your quote in BURUs double page spread advertisement in our local paper, The Broome Advertiser. Fluids and quantities used for fracking were not toxic or harmful in any way. Gee thanks. Can you explain to me then why the water in the evaporation ponds post fracking 80kms outside Broome at Yallaru was a strange deep orangey colour, smelt toxic and had a dead bird floating in it? Is it just toxic to birds? Can you explain why all the independent research around fracking fluid states that it is toxic in the extreme, that out of the 23 most used chemicals in fracking only 2 have ever been assessed by a National Regulator? Here’s what Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith from the National Toxic Network has to say, “They talk about such little amounts of chemicals being used, certainly our research shows that in many cases there are substantial quantities up to 18 tonnes per well, 40% of that can never be recovered and when you multiply that by the number of wells that the industry envisage the chemical usage really is phenomenal and the claim that these chemicals are the types of things that you find in your kitchen sink or in your bathroom cabinet is just absolute rubbish. We’re talking about chemicals that are carcinogens, neurotoxins, they are reproductive toxins they’re chemicals that cause sensitisation.” Or Dr Merryn Reddenbach from Drs for the Environment Australia. “We just don’t know what the potential impacts are going to be and that’s not just immediate impacts, this is impacts for generations to come because once those chemicals have gone into our ground water we cant get them out there’s no way of extracting those chemicals.” Can you provide me with some INDEPENDENT research that refutes this? Can you provide me with a list of the chemicals you intend to use in the fracking fluid, each time in each well? Dr Wulff, your fellow BURU employee states that, we intend to extract shale gas which is about 3 kms below the surface so it will not be impacting in any way on the groundwater supply which sits at about 100-500m below the surface. Please explain how you intend to drill through our groundwater with out affecting it and also how you can predict all of the fractures that will inevitably happen categorically wont lead to groundwater contamination. Also what you intend to do if, woops ,it accidentally does. How will you remove these chemicals from the groundwater once contaminated? Can you provide me with examples of where this has been successfully done? Can you explain also how you intend to extract 229 trillion cubic feet of gas from the Canning Basin with just one well? As pictured on page 11, the size of 2 tennis courts? Im hearing there will be thousands of wells, with roads and trucks to service them, the chemicals must be stored somewhere, the workers live somewhere, the airport increase in capacity to service the industry. Ive seen photos of Tara, QLD. Have you? Can you give absolute figures of how many locals will be employed? Can you give me a breakdown of exactly WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THIS COMMUNITY? Im not just talking sponsoring our life saving club or the Shinju festival or buying off a few locals like Woodside did. Im talking real positive benefits for all of our community and environement. Broome is a tourist town, our economy thrives on people coming to see and enjoy nature, the pristine beauty of the Kimberley, clean air and clean water. Im a bit concerned as this is what I am reading on the internet in Mining The Truth from the Australian Policy Online; ...only 1.9 % of Australian workforce is employed by mining, mining is 84% foreign owned, of the 600 billion dollars worth of minerals dug up and sold in the next 10 yrs 500 billion will leave Australia without passing through our economy... But in that 10 yrs the fuel subsidies plus tax payer funded infrastructure that serves almost exclusively the mining industry costs the Australian public 100 billion dollars. That doesn’t include the social and environmental costs. Mr Ford, Broome has already faced massive industrialisation with Woodsides attempted Gas Hub at James Price Point. We defeated it, Woodside lost allot of money. I feel through this campaign Broome and Australia gave a clear message that there are some places in the world that are not for industrialisation. There has to be some pristine areas left intact, for the health of the planet and its citizens. The iconic Kimberley is one such place. If you think for one minute that we listen to, or believe your corporate lies and spin, without solid independent research, you are seriously deluding yourself. We are learned in the campaign game now after 6 years of deceit from Woodside and State and local Govt. We fought for our towns survival then and we will fight again, with everything we have. This may be just some more gas in the ground to you but to us this is our home, our life and our very survival that is at stake. Thanks for your time Mr Ford and I look forward to your response to my concerns and your detailed answers to my questions. Kind Regards Amanda Walsh Broome Resident PS.You say you are interested in hearing from the community, will you staff your community complaints line with a voice recorded message like Woodside? Or with a real person?
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:27:20 +0000
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