Surely the point here is that you and your cronies share a number of characteristics:
1) You are determined to develop NSW CSG reserves
2) That determination does not take into account relevant science
3) That determination chooses to ignore any factors affecting aquifers
4) That determination chooses to ignore any factors affecting the above ground environment
5) That determination chooses to ignore the social welfare of those pholk who unfortunately live in what you want to turn into an industrialised wasteland
In support of that determination you are willing to run any argument, no matter how spurious, which supports your personal agenda. Flavour of the month is the "NSW will run out of gas, there will be no manufacturing or industry left by 2016, etc etc" line which simply doesn't bear ANY analysis at all. If it did the article I cited would be saying MacFarlane's statements were 100% verified. If you look at the actual article there are lots of dialogue boxes which detail the areas he is deficient, regardless of having access to the "best advice [CSG] money can buy"!
As far as the price argument goes, it is absurd to suggest NSW gas prices will be affected in any way by CSG mining achieving its targets for rapid development.
For example, if MEL did somehow get approval and, in the face of ~90% community opposition force the construction of 10-20000 wells in the Northern Rivers, what would the end result be for NSW? The answer lies in their oft stated intention to bulldoze a corridor through the World Heritage Border Ranges to facilitate gas supply to Qld, ie to the Gladstone LNG factories.
NSW prices will be determined by the same factor as Qld, Vic (or any other states') - the price paid by Asian buyers for LNG. Can you imagine the shareholder reaction if AGL, MEL, STO (or any other gas miner) were to say "we have decided to be nice and sell our gas at $X to NSW domestic customers despite being able to easily achieve $2X by selling it to the LNG factories."
Greed-driven Ayn Randists would make the poor pholk of the Northern Rivers look like lambs! And yet this is the key to the argument you're putting!
As for your ill-informed personal attack in your last para, perhaps you would do well to actually contribute to any discussion here rather than repeating arguments from a script. Given that your alternative is, when cornered, to ignore the arguments which demolish your position, actual thought might contribute to all of us having a better grasp of the issues!
