Orauea stream in Southland was a dumping spot for fracking fluid and waste water
3 News can reveal previously unreleased details of one the few sites in New Zealand to use the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
In the warmer months, Orauea stream in Southland is a great trout fishing spot. In the 90s it was also a great dumping spot for fracking fluid and waste water.
“The industry's very much assuring people it's got everything under control but when you look at some of the things that have happened in the past - this incident you’re talking about and up in the Taranaki - I think it pays for the public to be very watchful,” says Environment Southland councillor Robert Guyton.
A now defunct company set up two wells in 1995 to prospect for coal seam gas just south of Ohai in Southland.
Each well was fracked using water, sand and 95 litres of a chemical which breaks down into formaldehyde.
3 News
No comments:
Post a Comment