CLAIMS made by a senior Queensland Government bureaucrat that coal seam gas fracking chemicals could be bought in supermarkets were just PR spin, the National Toxics Network declared yesterday.
Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning strategic economic projects general manager Dennis Bird briefed a state parliamentary committee on coal seam gas last Wednesday. He told the committee that concerns about the chemicals used in the CSG industry process of fracking (where coal seams are fractured to open the flow of gas) were unfounded.
Mr Bird said the chemicals used in the process could be bought down at the local Woolworths or Bunnings Hardware store.
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Warwick Daily News
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