A community protest of up to 30 people was held outside a global shale industry conference in Perth on June 28. Campaign group No Fracking WAy organised the protest. The two-day conference on global shale gas development put on by the Electric Utility Consultants, Inc (EUCI) at the Seasons of Perth Hotel, 37 Pier St, Perth.
The protesters held up banners, sang anti-fracking songs and heard from several speakers about the problems with the shale gas industry, which is expanding rapidly in Western Australia.
No Fracking Way spokesperson Farida Iqbal told Green Left Weekly: “We are opposed to the expansion of the shale gas industry in WA, because of the environmental and health risks of the shale gas industry and fracking (or hydraulic fracturing), the process typically used to extract the gas.”
The state government has granted exploration licences for unconventional gas over a tenth of the landmass of WA. The government and industry proponents take great pains to try to distinguish shale and tight gas — most of the deposits being actively pursued now — from coal seam gas extraction in the eastern states.
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