Australian Farms, Crops, Drinking Water Under Threat From Coal Seam Gas Mining

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3375855.htm?site=rural&microsite=coalseam&section=latest&date=(none)

One wonders what exactly the Murray Darling Basin Plan is really all about "environmental" needs ? River health ? as cited by the MDBA. How can this be when toxic waste from Coal Seam Gas mining is being dumped into the very same river system in Southern Qld then flowing along with the toxic waste down to the Riverina and beyond ?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/coal-seam-gas-by-the-numbers/


Where are the "Greens" in this rapidly unfolding environmental catastrophe ? Still focused on their three main issues ? Same sex marraige, Carbon tax and Refugees ? The Greens "commitment" to the environment or lack there of on this simmering catastrophy speaks for itself !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZe1AeH0Qz8&noredirect=1

View the above trailer from Gasland, the experience America has had from this Halliburton developed technology of "fracking". Interestingly aside from the enviromental destruction and human health implications, pundits suggest "we must consider the more CSG mining, the less dependant on oil from terrorists we shall be". Terrorists will hardly be a problem once we've poisoned our lands and ourselves with the CSG magic pudding.

What of our Artesian basin, our aquifiers and water contamination generally ?

Our Australian farms will be irrigating crops with a mix of very dangerous and highly toxic chemicals, if crops will grow at all in the salty toxic mix !

Quality drinking water will be reserved for those who can afford to pay multinational beverage companies.

It is difficult to see how CSG mining waste is going to improve the health of the Murray Darling Basin and its fragile ecosystem and at the rate CSG mining is expanding in Australia, the situation has become grave.

Perhaps these questions and more should be asked of the Murray Darling Basin Authority ?

What of the water privatization, foreign "investors" and the "water" futures market ?

So many questions and so few answers... beside the obvious GREED !