KylieT,
Took your advice and sent the following short note to 'ABC News & Current Affairs'.
Your Comments:
'With re to current Coal Seam Gas (CSG) concerns and the fact that CSG mining has been permitted to go ahead. This is despite reported readings of Benzene being found to be in upto fifty times greater concentrations, and more widely spread, than was the case of the Cougar Energy (CXY) Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) scare several months ago.
As you would be aware, the Cougar Energy plant has been closed down and about 30 of their staff laid off in Kingaroy and Brisbane in the interim with no indication of when the facility will be allowed to reopen and the staff rehired.
Why is there such apparent favouritism toward the CSG process over the UCG process in Q'ld. After all the UCG process is about twelve times more efficient than CSG, causes far less soil surface disturbance (no fraccing) and does not require to bring saline underground water to the surface, i.e poses no threat to underground aquifiers.
What is it that the Q'ld Department of Environment and Dorothy Pratt do not get about what is the least invasive and more sustainable of these two processes. The answer would appear to be painfully obvious.
Finally, I believe that what the Q'ld Government has done to Cougar Energy defies basic logic and fair play and borders on the criminal. Its time someone did a comparitive report on the different treatment of these industries'
Donos
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