question for ml, page-34

As a local person on the Northern Rivers, I can see that there are several reasons why the Lions road pipeleine will not go ahead in the near future.

A. it will be a public relations nightmare for the companies and politicians involved as the farmers wives out of kyogle oppose and block every meter of it. And B the locals are convinced it will have environmental impacts and those people are really, really against environmental impacts. For example you can't bury the pipeline under the hundreds of creek crossings so there will be erosion at every crossing and farmers are known not to be fans of pipes crossing creeks, let alone Kyogle farmers which are almost greenies..

And it's not a water pipe it's a COAL SEAM GAS high pressure pipeline which locals are worried that it could and probably will leak and quite possibly EXPLODE so talking about water pipes, railways and anything eles has nothing to do with the acceptance of it. And in the minds of the local people at least, a pipeline brings with it the black silhouette of a rearing monster of a leaking, venting, toxic water dumping coal seam gas field. And that really terrifies them. They are frightened for their childrens health and future after seeing the kids in QLD with the rashes and nosebleeds, the dumping of wastewater in the now bubbling, salt crusted condamine which they think is most likely caused by migrating gas from the nearby gas field according to Gavin Mudd of Monash Uni., plus the burning bore fires at dalby caused by the same thing and god knows what else we are about to see. And I can't say I blame them. So basically I think there is buckleys chance of getting that through there without a whole lot of pain, delay and money burn.