There's money in destruction. Don't miss out!
If you are prepared to pollute Australia's groundwater by pumping chemicals into it, you can force out the coal seam gas and flog it. You can make a lot of money! Mind you, there will be a lot of children with leukemia, maybe your own, we will no longer be able to drink the water that has sustained the nation and it's Aboriginal owners for all time, but does it matter if we can make money? After all, we can drink bottled water, or filtered water, or grog, can't we? We can even sell that! There's money in that too. There's nothing that can't be sold, is there?
Now if you're one of those people that doesn't want our water supply polluted and our children dying of leukemia, then you may have to stand up and say loudly, "No!" because otherwise, this is happening, day by day.
So if you'd like to have clean water and healthy children, why not take a look at this short video
http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/coal-seam-gas/csg-ad/dont-risk-csg
of what happens on farms when holes are drilled and this destructive process (which we give the jovial name of 'fracking') begins. Note that the farmers can't stop this, they have no power. The politicians won't give them the power, the petroleum industry has the right to walk onto to their land, breaking into the farm if necessary, without even warning, and start up this process of heavy pollution. Yes, please take a look, and add your voice to the resistance against this wilful and very profitable destruction of Australia's water. We better act fast, or our land will be devastated while we look on.
The Great Artesian Basin is being attacked. YOU CANNOT IMAGINE THE SCALE OF IT UNTIL YOU SEE THIS VIDEO.
A representative of the Petroleum Gas industry, on Radio National, palming off the destruction, actually said, "Oh in Sydney, we may not have to use fracking". No? They'll pollute our suburbs by mixing coal seam gas with groundwater but maybe not using fracking! Maybe. So it'll be OK.
Read this from GetUp:
Every week Tony wakes at dawn to make his regular rounds. There are already 66 wells in the Piliga State forest near his farm, and over 1,000 more are planned. It's supposed to be a conservation reserve.
He follows the pipes, looking for leaks, and often finds them. He takes photos of the unsealed ponds where mining companies store waste water from extraction, and of the trees dying off nearby. He's right to be concerned. Analysis of waste in other areas found hundreds of industrial chemicals, and carcinogens linked to leukaemia at levels 6 to 15 times safe drinking water standards1.
Undeterred, coal seam gas companies don't want anything to slow, nor regulate, their rapid expansion. So this week they launched a new PR campaign to convince the community and the Government there is nothing to worry about.
If the industry hasn't moved into your area yet, watch this video featuring Tony and other locals, to see why coal seam gas is the next big threat to our land and water:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/coal-seam-gas/csg-ad/dont-risk-csg
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