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More from the Northern Rivers, a Notice of Motion from another green muppet at BSC, to note the ongoing concern expressed by the community regarding the exploration and production of coal seam gas.

Pity they don'd spend more time on what they were elected for ... like fixing roads and providing services.

Mate of mine, and another MEL holder, is so frustrated, that he has penned the following open letter to our "Basil"


RE: Notice of Motion No. 8.12. Coal Seam Gas 28/06/2012
I move:
1. That Council note the ongoing concern expressed by the community within Byron Shire and the Northern Rivers regarding the exploration and production of coal seam gas. Signed: Cr Basil Cameron



Dear Councillor Cameron RE: regarding the exploration and production of coal seam gas:

FRACKING FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

Councillor if you count the number of Fs in the above quote you no doubt counted three Fs – 3Fs and to make sure count again to check.
I have noted you notice of motion No. 8.12 on CSG and would ask why the “Green Guru” and eminent UK scientist “James Lovelock the man behind Gaia theory, and once predicted doom for our climate”, would consider your notice of motion an uninformed backward step for the environment.

I personally would simply note two things:

A) Such a motion doesn’t have a place in local government for a number of rational reasons but primarily because the State regulates and controls the resource industry.
B) The simple fact that Byron Shire has no shale or coal seams which makes your CSG motion doubly irrelevant.

Councillor why does such and intelligent free thinker such as James Lovelock think “the UK should be going mad for fracking”? This is a position which is completely at odds with your notice of motion.
In the attached articles to this e-mail he discusses fracking is the future.
LINK - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/jun/15/james-lovelock-fracking-greens-climate

Lovelock on "Fracking":
“Gas is almost a give-away in the US at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it: the amount of CO2 produced by burning gas in a good turbine gives you 60% efficiency. In a coal-fired power station, it is 30% per unit of fuel. So you get a two-to-one gain there straight away. The next two-to-one gain you get is that methane has only got half its energy in the carbon, the other half is in the hydrogen, so there's a four-to-one gain in CO2 output from the same amount of electricity by burning methane. Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it. The fear of nuclear is now too great after Fukushima and the cost of building new build plants is very expensive and impractical.”
“And it takes a long time to get them running. It is very obvious in America that fracking took almost no time at all to get going. It happened without any debate whatsoever. Suddenly you found there was this abundant fuel source. There's only a finite amount of it [in the UK] so before it runs out we should really be thinking sensibly about what to do next. We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price. Hydro, biomass, solar, etc, have all got great promise, but they're not available tomorrow, or even in 10 years.”
Now Councillor back to the number of Fs in the opening statement on fracking above; if you check again there are actually six Fs - 6 Fs not three. Open your mind and see the six Fs Councillor; don’t have a closed mind on CSG, a mind closed by the NSW Greens and EDO’s inaccurate, alarmist and relentless misinformation about the CSG industry. I think James Lovelock has it right about CSG’s crucial timely role in diminishing the carbon impact of the power industry.

So please read the article with an open mind under your NSW coal powered light, in a room probably warmed by Bass Strait or Moomba LPG after a meal likely cooked with the same LPG and consider the attached article and see more than six reasons to withdraw your CSG notice of motion.

Then after you have driven to Mullum next Thursday in your car powered by carbon based fuel most probably refined in Singapore from Middle East oil, don’t put on a dunces cap and debate this stupid irrelevant motion on CSG and the local CSG industry. Apologise for the waste of Council staff time and withdraw the motion. Don’t fool yourself, fuel yourself locally Councillor!

Regards


Motsa