In the Public Interest: re COAL SEAM GAS
If you missed the December screening in Proserpine of the thought provoking movie "Gaslands" please note email received from:
Hugh Reardon-Smith
Sam Agronomy - Landmark
Sam Agronomy - Landmark
Landmark Operations Ltd (ABN 73 008 743 217), Mallard Road, Pittsworth, QLD 4356, Australia
T: +61 07 4693 2122 | F: +61 07 4693 1831 | M: +61 04 0785 6211
E: hugh.reardon-smith@landmark.com.au
T: +61 07 4693 2122 | F: +61 07 4693 1831 | M: +61 04 0785 6211
E: hugh.reardon-smith@landmark.com.au
WATCH FOUR CORNERS (ABC TV 8.30PM) ON MONDAY NIGHT:
From Four Corners website:
Imagine you are running a successful farming operation; then one day a man from the gas company arrives with news that a coal seam gas field lies beneath your feet. From there 3 wells are sunk, then another 18. And then a proposal for another 30, turning your property into a thriving gas field, while threatening the viability of the working farm.
Down the road, the neighbour sells after 48 wells are sunk into his property. The compensation of $250 a year, per well was not much inducement to stay. The wells themselves are estimated to be making the companies a million dollars a year, each.
And then the gas company says they might have to move your house to sink another well into the land.
This is the experience of just one of the farmers featured on Four Corners this week.
Right across Australia gas companies are drilling down through the earth to extract the resource that the industry says will be one of the answers to our future energy needs. Already some $31 billion worth of gas projects have been approved by the Federal Government, which are expected to generate thousands of jobs and billions in revenues.
But this precious resource lies beneath homes and farms, and the food bowls of Australia.
And this is where the gas companies are drilling; prompting a heated conflict over who should pay the price for our energy supplies.
Read more at: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2011/s3141787.htm
From Four Corners website:
Imagine you are running a successful farming operation; then one day a man from the gas company arrives with news that a coal seam gas field lies beneath your feet. From there 3 wells are sunk, then another 18. And then a proposal for another 30, turning your property into a thriving gas field, while threatening the viability of the working farm.
Down the road, the neighbour sells after 48 wells are sunk into his property. The compensation of $250 a year, per well was not much inducement to stay. The wells themselves are estimated to be making the companies a million dollars a year, each.
And then the gas company says they might have to move your house to sink another well into the land.
This is the experience of just one of the farmers featured on Four Corners this week.
Right across Australia gas companies are drilling down through the earth to extract the resource that the industry says will be one of the answers to our future energy needs. Already some $31 billion worth of gas projects have been approved by the Federal Government, which are expected to generate thousands of jobs and billions in revenues.
But this precious resource lies beneath homes and farms, and the food bowls of Australia.
And this is where the gas companies are drilling; prompting a heated conflict over who should pay the price for our energy supplies.
Read more at: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2011/s3141787.htm
Save Our Foreshore Inc
Faye Chapman
Secretary/Treasurer
Tel: 4946 1601
