This is the first in a Lock the Gate Alliance series of Voices from the Gaslands. While CSG and Shale Gas exploration involve a slightly different process, they share similar risks and require similar infrastructure. From Lock the Gate: Landholders across Queensland are facing an invasive force as coal seam gas companies move onto their land. The landholders, many of whom have worked their properties for generations, are being forced to accept life in a gas field. The impact is huge and is taking its toll in a myriad of different ways. This is the story of a cotton farmer who is about to lose two of his propertys underground water bores as the gas companies suck megalitres out of the aquifer. The companies are supposed to make good on the water loss but so far, despite 15 months of negotiations, the family are no closer to resolving their water issue than they were when the Queensland Water Commission predicted, in July 2012, that the bore would drop within three years. The family faces an uncertain future. Please take a moment to watch and share this short video. vimeo/104684024
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 01:35:43 +0000
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