Coal seam gas mining will:

Destroy Australia’s acquifers, in particular The Great Artisiann Basin, by reducing water levels in the bores and feeder streams.

Destroy Australia’s waterways by allowing toxic water to mix with fresh water.

Poison the atmosphere from methane gas leakage.

The general population does not realise that the gas from this form of mining is methane, not carbon dioxide.

Once the bore holes are drilled the mining company cannot control the release of feral methane.

Methane is 25 times more detrimental to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

Gas seam mining uses approximately 290 different chemicals during the drilling process.

This mixes with the water used and 70 per cent of this is returned to the earth’s surface.

High pressure grout is used to seal the test bores, but it is impossible to control this grout at a depth of 1.4 kilometres below the surface.

Once coal seam gas exploration is established in an area, property values halve and equity with the banks is destroyed.

Too many accidents are happening with coal seam gas mining and too much land being polluted and destroyed.

Many valleys in Queensland and America have been destroyed.

Did you realise that Erin Brochovich, the movie was made about the consequences of gas seam extraction in America?

Wake up Australia and ban this insidious form of mining completely, before it’s too late.