Hmm, a politician (a senator from a different state) tries something, and people go haywire. The State department of REsources, and the Federal Foremost scientific body describe it as a non-issue, for several reasons…
- The condamine river sits above a massive hydrocarbon basin (i.e. coal and gas field).
- The location in question while a km or two from a “well”, said well, was an exploration well, and is capped and has never been used for fracking.
- Methane has been coming out of the Condamine river for as long as locals can remember - long before any drilling or mining in the area.
- The nearest real fracking is over 40 kms away.
- Multiple scientists have analyzed the gases coming off the river, and compared them to the gases coming from fracking sites - they are dramaticallly chemically dissimilar.
But let’s not let science get in the way of a good story.
