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THIS IS WHAT A GASFIELD LOOKS LIKE.

HOW HAVE WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE NOW?


2006: The Story of Blood and Gore
David Blood: Ex-Goldman Sachs Assets Manager. Al Gore: US Presidential candidate. Partners in Generation Investment Management [GIM],

Victorias Energy Crisis.


2007: The Yallourn coal mine collapsed. Repairs were carried out, but the DPI said it would be likely to collapse again. It collapsed in 2012. In 2009/10: The Kevin Rudd led Australian Federal Government allocated $2.425 billion in its annual Budget towards industrial scale carbon capture and storage projects [CCS], but failed to bring it online. They turned to Queensland and coal seam gas.

Case Study: Lake Concordia landslide,18 July 2009, Nachterstedt, Germany.

Victorias Long History in Oil and Gas.


Woodside/Lakes Oil
1958/9 Lakes Oil drilling Co., were at McLoughlins Beach drilling for 3-4 years. In 1962 Lakes Oil/Woodside did the groundwork for Esso/Mobil, but Lakes/Oil/ Woodside withdrew when it found it couldnt compete with the larger corporation, it moved instead to Western Australia. It abandoned wells, which are still said to be leaking gas.

Abandoned Woodside-Lakes Oil well head from the 1950s, believed to be still leaking.

AGL bore adjacent to the vineyard village of Broke showing significant subsidence. 2012

Subsidence: Gippsland and the Gulf of Mexico.


A 1970s oil and gas boom set the pace for exploration in the Bass Straight with all the appropriate legislation in place and deep water drilling. Coal extraction in the Latrobe Valley also took place. This has allegedly caused depletion of ground water and coastal subsidence. ______________________
USGS Coastal Marine and Geology Program.

Correlations between mining, subsidence and earthquakes.


Studies now show that in the Gulf of
Mexico constant deep water drilling offshore has caused the land to subside leaving the area vulnerable to hurricanes

Katrina was a category 5 storm; it was


followed a few weeks later by Hurricane Rita. Had this taken place prior to drilling the results would have been different.

http://www. triplecrisis.com/offshore-oil-drilling-and-hurricanerisks/2012. Sbxdaily.com

Mine subsidence in Colorado.

Wetland Loss.

Subsidence, Earthquakes and Fracking.


Two separate studies are providing insights into the earth-shaking consequences of the gas extraction process known as fracking. One in the United States and another in the United Kingdom. U.S. Geological Survey seismologist William Ellsworth said geologists have noticed a strange increase in earthquakes that seem manmade.

In Arkansas, dozens of earthquakes near wastewater disposal sites related to the state's huge Fayetteville Shale deposit led the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission to shut down an existing disposal site and issue a moratorium on the development of new ones. Mother Jones May 2012.

So, does CSG cause subsidence and earthquakes?


The way companies dispose of fracking waste can, which means that other types of energy-related activity that rely on fluid injectionenhanced oil recovery, enhanced geothermal systems, carbon capture and sequestrationalso have the potential to cause quakes. The evidence suggests that we can add earthquakes to the growing list of CSG hazards, alongside air pollution, tainted drinking water and potentially outsized carbon emissions.
Mother Jones May 2012.

WORSE CASE SCENARIO.


On the 25th 2007 gas drilling on the Indonesian island of Java triggered a "mud volcano" that killed 13 people and has rendered four square miles (ten square kilometres) of countryside uninhabitable for years. A report released by a team of British researchers said the deadly upwelling began when an exploratory gas well punched through a layer of volcanic rock 9,300 feet (2,800 meters) below the surface, allowing hot, high-pressure water to escape. The accident was then called a volcanic mud eruption, which leads people to believe it was a natural eruption. [Richard A. Lovett National Geographic News].

Seismic Data and current well distribution [ASP] Australian School of Petroleum 2009.

EARTHQUAKE RISKS: GIPPSLANDS MAJOR FAULT SYSTEM:[ASP] 2009.

Are we monitoring the earth sufficiently before, during and after drawing resources?
Adam Pascale, Head of Seismology at Engineering Solutions for Monitoring the Environment believes we should look more closely at the impacts of mining. He said: Some human activities may alter the stress distribution. When we change the stress distribution in a section of earth, we can alter the way that the earth releases its stress.

How Natural is Natural Gas?


NATURAL GAS IS NOT NATURAL NATURAL GAS IS NOT RENEWABLE. GAS DRILLING IN VOLATILE TERRAIN IS NOT SAFE.

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