MIDCOAST Water has denied claims it has accepted and treated water from Gloucester’s coal seam gas exploration and test wells, at its Dawson River sewerage treatment works.
MidCoast Water general manager, Robert Loadsman, said on Wednesday the claims made by Manning Alliance were “absolutely false”, and that water which in recent weeks has been accepted at the Dawson River plant - from the Gloucester area - was “not anything produced at AGL”.
AGL Energy has a licence to explore for coal seam gas and to drill test wells on a property at Stratford, near Gloucester, which was the subject of a public blockade late last year. The AGL property adjoins one that is owned by another mining company, Gloucester Coal.
On Wednesday, Manning Alliance, which opposes coal seam gas mining, alleged a wastewater tanker had been seen “on many occasions” leaving the property which was subject to last year’s blockade, and that it had released its loads of water at MidCoast Water’s treatment works at Dawson River, near Cundletown.
The Alliance said it understood MidCoast Water was “treating and releasing liquids from AGL’s coal seam gas exploration and test wells from Gloucester into the Dawson River.”
Manning River Times
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