greens hypocrisy- kick anything left standing, page-5

well I don't want to be too quick to jump to conclusions that it is ENTIRELY not possible that it comes from CSG.

If I consider the problem unemotionally then I think it gets a little clearer.

How is gas produced by a coal seam? The gas is produced when the hydrostatic pressure created by water is removed (pumped off). The gas then desorbs from the coals.

So straight off the bat, if the coal seam gas wells hadnt been placed on pump and havent been stimulated in any way; then it is pretty hard to conceive how it is remotely possible to link CSG activity with the methane in the bubbling river.

Now that does ruin a good story unfortunately, but we should always approach things with a healthy degree of skepticism.

So where does it come from then? We know gas can migrate underrgound (as this is how conventional deposits are formed). So to completely discount CSGs involvement with this phenonmenon, we would have to locate a reasonable conduit from a gas source to the point of bubbling in the river. So are there CSG wells in production that are at a decline to the units that are outcropping under the condamine?


Why in the river? What is a more interesting question is, why is it just bubbling under the river???

A well known trick of using soapy water to detect a gas leak in your pipes or perhaps your bike tyre. So is it possible that there is in fact gas spewing out across the country side and that it is just being detected in the river because of the visible bubbling....?

Anyway, what discounts most of this as being related to CSG in anyway is that it was occurring in the river for years before CSG started there. But that really puts the breaks on a good story doesnt it Jonesy!

SF