With just five streets and 300 residents, Whatatutu (NZ) is an East Coast town you can miss in a blink.
It’s a tight-knit community surrounded by forestry and traditional family farms – and reserves of fuel-rich subterranean rock so vast the area is “literally leaking oil and gas”, according to Canadian mining company Tag Oil.
Armed with exploration licenses issued by the NZ government, Tag Oil and its partner Apache intend to extract oil and gas from the earth around Whatatutu using hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”.
Mining advocates claim the practice, which involves injecting millions of litres of highly pressurised water, sand and chemicals into the earth, is safe; others insist it leaves a toxic legacy.
It’s a tight-knit community surrounded by forestry and traditional family farms – and reserves of fuel-rich subterranean rock so vast the area is “literally leaking oil and gas”, according to Canadian mining company Tag Oil.
Armed with exploration licenses issued by the NZ government, Tag Oil and its partner Apache intend to extract oil and gas from the earth around Whatatutu using hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”.
Mining advocates claim the practice, which involves injecting millions of litres of highly pressurised water, sand and chemicals into the earth, is safe; others insist it leaves a toxic legacy.
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thanks so much for posting this. We are crowd funding this film. If everyone with an interest in this subject could donate $10 we'd be on our way. www.pledgeme.co.nz/fracking
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