Very much worth the read. Here is a snippet: Groundswell Gloucester spokesperson Julie Lyford, a former Mayor of Gloucester, has been a long-time opponent and effective lobbyist against mining here. She says it should be the last place on earth for a mining boom. “There’s a cumulative impact that is quite profound. It’s the Manning catchment and for nearby Taree it’s also the Port Stephens catchment, which has oyster growing and tourism. There are also the cumulative issues of an expanding open cut mine operating 24 hours a day right next to where people live. “Compound that with 330 gas wells and another mine that’s in the process of approval less than three kilometres from our hospital, nursing home and schools and main population base – to industrialise a valley that’s been on the State Heritage register for nomination since 1975 is disgraceful. All the Aboriginal heritage has been totally dismissed and there are nine Aboriginal sites that will be destroyed with the open cut mine expansion. “There’s an air quality issue. Fifty homes would be impacted with the 2kilometre zone exclusion. “So the 2kilometre zone is a bit of a furphy. Just because a home is two kilometres away doesn’t mean when the wind blows it’s not going to blow over your kids jumping on the trampoline. They’ll have toluene residue in their urine like they have in Tara.” She points out that the report requires CSG operators to collect effective, local baseline information on existing levels of airborne chemicals and local climactic data before any project is considered. Yet she claims that in their fracking application, instead of collecting a local baseline for damaging CSG emissions such as volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides or carbon monoxide, AGL used desktop data from remote locations such as Muswellbrook and Singleton. For climactic data, she says AGL used figures from Windermere, near Bulga. Read more: aidanricketts/gloucester-dreaming/
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 04:09:53 +0000
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