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Originally Posted by Dean from Australia
With the Australian clusterfuck: our gas companies are protected by leglislation that allows them to walk onto people's land and set up fracking infrastructure and the land owners can't do a fucking thing about it nor can they get any compensation for it. State Governments are falling over themselves to get these companies on board because of the royalties they get from the end resource. Additionally, any local councils who try to leglislate against the mining companies are being hauled into court and sued for damaging the profit potential of the mining companies.
The assertion that flammable water is not a result of the fracking process - bullshit. Landowners are reporting the exact same thing happening to them down here and only since the gas companies started their plants up.
Warning from a Coal Seam Gas Refugee - Kyogle Rally, Oct 2011 - YouTube
There is a movement against fracking that is starting to take hold in Austrlai but it's very much a David and Goliath battle. We are very much guided by what is happening right now in America.
The corporations will probably win. |
This is so depressing
How can people live with themselves?