Are my eyes deceiving me or is Gina Rinehart really wearing a "Drill Baby Drill" bib?

I suppose bibs are useful for leaks and spills - a sign of what's to come in the gasfield? 🤔

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Senex Surat Basin gas facility official opening.

The extent of #CSG mining occurring in Qld is totally unsustainable and an assault on intergenerational equity. Our next generations will look back and ask why on earth did we let a foreign #gascartel impair Qld's most precious resource - water 💦

As our surface water evaporates and lessens in a warming climate, our groundwater will become ever more critical. If we allow the gas industry to stuff up Qld's regional groundwater resources, we are stuffing them up for our future generations. 🧵

When we live on the most arid inhabited continent on earth, it really makes one ask if allowing foreign-owned gas companies to extract thousands of megalitres of water per yr from the Great Artesian Basin, in order to export GHG emitting fossil fuels, really is a wise move⁉️ 🧵

We are not jumping at shadows when we say that #CSG mining risks adversely affecting the future of the Darling Downs and its precious groundwater forever.

So many scientific unknowns remain, and yet gas companies like Arrow Energy have been granted approval to drill 💯s of gas wells in some of Qld's most sensitive locations.

The legislated obligatory precautionary principle has been tossed out of the window 🪟
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All aided and abetted by:

🔺️existing geological contact,
🔺️faults & fractures,
🔺️uncapped legacy coal exploration holes, and
🔺️the integrity failure of gas wells due to microbiological influenced corrosion, which creates immense fluid & gas leakage pathways.

All present and correct ✔️
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Standout risks from the surrounding #CSG depressurisation include depletion of the water table and contamination from the migration of free gas. 🧵

For anyone interested in the existential threat that coal seam gas mining poses to good quality aquifers, like the Condamine Alluvium💦 in the #DarlingDowns, information is provided in this Qld Science Network link: scienceqld.org/2024/09/19/c...
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