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Coal seam gas extraction will be an impact issue in NSW local council M&As : Comments
By Richard Stanton, published 24/8/2011Barry O'Farrell is searching far and wide for an issue that will create a turning point in the council M&A problem.
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Clearly you have not been listening to the concerns of farmers. CSG is not "enshrined in regulations." One of our farmers' biggest issues is that there is simply no legislation that protects farmers or water - at this moment a CSG company can walk onto a property and begin extraction without even having signed a written agreement. What other business in the world operates like that?
Posted by nocsg, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 7:55:39 AM
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Seems a long bow, perhaps the country air? Amalgamations will not work in the Big Smoke which is the battlefield between the Government and the developers and this logic will hold no water there. There are a few coal gas seam projects there but they are breakfast fodder for city communities. In The Bush, I'll believe they'll accept M&A when the Act is passed. Didn't happen in the past and now all Parties have their roots in council politics, and country towns need a heart. Amalgamations are unnecessary in achieving council reform.
Posted by Frederic Marshall, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 9:23:12 AM
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Farmers are not well resourced and have not much in common with the Greens. Disruption and contamination is the problem re gas extraction.
It seems that these concerns are of little consequence. If that is so, why has Halliburton developed a new "clean green" technique to extract gas; http://www.halliburton.com/public/projects/pubsdata/hydraulic_fracturing/CleanSuite_Technologies.html In fact a Halliburton employee I know has told me that at a demo he has "seen a guy eat the fracking fluid". The clean system is apparently operating in Louisiana. It seems sensible to require edible fracking fluid and other minimally harmful applications from all miners that operate in Australia and whoever rises to the surface after the Mergers and Acquisitions cabal is sorted can see to it. Posted by d'Helm, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 9:04:26 PM
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nocsg - try the following, it might make you feel better;
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979; Mining Act 1992; Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997; Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999; and Water Management Act 2000 Regardless of case by case particulars, CSG does not take place on the surface of the moon and needs to work within the bounds of these pieces of legislation. Posted by Yellow Kraken, Thursday, 25 August 2011 9:48:58 AM
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No no, reading those Acts will give you a headache, they've been amended so many times that the sense has largely gone, with wide gates for miners and developers to exploit. John Mant's call for 3rd party appeal rights would be an interesting topic for debate.
Posted by Frederic Marshall, Sunday, 28 August 2011 1:23:12 PM
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