Cougar Energy fight for right to destroy Kingaroy

The Company that screwed up big time with its trial fracking site in Kingaroy, where it contaminated local bores, is attempting to sue the Queensland Government for shutting its operation down. They have to be dreaming.

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Author: Bearsy

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I’m sure Bilby, if she were around would have something to say on this subject, Bearsy. I’ll let her know when she’s back.

Thanks – she’s the main reason I posted it. 🙂

Thanks for posting this, Bearsy.

I must admit to a deep (though possibly irrational) dislike of mining companies, partly formed by the distressing results of oil spillages. I did some research on fracking today which was interesting and disturbing; too risky, too many unknowns.

A snippet from http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/translating-uncle-sam/stories/big-frack-attack-is-hydraulic-fracturing-safe

“The industry insists there’s no proof such fluids get into aquifers, but the EPA estimates only 15 to 80 percent return to the surface, and no study has ever shown where the rest end up. That has set off an array of health alarms, but since no study has traced the fluids from a gas well to a water well, either, communities near gas fields are left to sit in legal limbo for now. “Theoretically, it’s not hard to demonstrate how a high-volume, slick-water hydraulic fracturing event at some depth could cause fractures, or existing joints or faults, to receive the fracturing fluid and transport it vertically to groundwater,” Ingraffea says. “What is hard is proving that such theoretical events have actually occurred.”

This Briefing Paper from NTN is interesting:

Click to access NTN-Fracking-Briefing-Paper-2011.pdf

Cougar behaved in a similarly irresponsible way during its pilot project near Dalby in 2009. Didn’t anyone research the company’s history in the decision-making process?

I’m with the Queensland Government on this one. I hope Cougar loses its Court case and is run out of ‘my town’.

I don’t think the case should even get to court, The company messes up, is closed down and wants me (under the guise of the Queensland Government) to pay compensation… Grrrr!