The Barrington-Gloucester-Stroud Preservation Alliance has called a public meeting to look at community responses, including the possibility of non-violent action, to push AGL to halt its drilling program until an independent examination of seismic and water studies has been undertaken.
An alliance spokesman said increasing anger is being expressed by Gloucester citizens at the refusal by AGL to halt its drilling program to allow an independent examination of the seismic and water studies that have been undertaken since project approval for the development of a coal seam gas field was given in the dying days of the previous state government in February this year.
At the NSW Government Upper House Coal Seam Gas Inquiry hearing held at Taree a month ago MidCoast Water stated they had been excluded from the early phase of planning and they now have been given preliminary water study results which indicate the presence of heavy metals and very high salinity in the water coming from the drill holes. In a Letter to the Editor in the Advocate MidCoast said they had not done measurements of the cancer causing BTEX chemicals potentially released from fracked coal seams into the ground and surface water systems.
Gloucester Advocator
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