How Natural is Natural Gas

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THIS IS WHAT A GASFIELD LOOKS LIKE.


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HOW HAVE WE GOT TO WHERE

WE ARE NOW?

2006: The Story of Blood and Gore

David Blood: Ex-Goldman Sachs Assets Manager.

Al Gore: US Presidential candidate.Partners in Generation Investment Management [GIM],


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Victorias Energy Crisis.

2007: The Yallourn coal

mine collapsed. Repairs

were carried out, but the

DPI said it would be likely

to collapse again.

It collapsed in 2012.

In 2009/10: The Kevin

Rudd led Australian

Federal Government

allocated $2.425 billion in

its annual Budget towards

industrial scale carbon

capture and storage

projects [CCS], but failed

to bring it online. They

turned to Queensland

and coal seam gas.


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Case Study: Lake Concordia landslide,18 July

2009, Nachterstedt, Germany.


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Victorias Long History in Oil and Gas.

Woodside/Lakes Oil

1958/9 Lakes Oil drilling Co., were at

McLoughlins Beach drilling for 3-4

years.

In 1962 Lakes Oil/Woodside did the

groundwork for Esso/Mobil, but

Lakes/Oil/ Woodside withdrew when

it found it couldnt compete with the

larger corporation, it moved insteadto Western Australia. It abandoned

wells, which are still said to be

leaking gas.


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Abandoned Woodside-Lakes Oil well head from

the 1950s, believed to be still leaking.


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AGL bore adjacent to the vineyard village ofBroke showing significant subsidence. 2012


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Subsidence: Gippsland and the Gulf of

Mexico.

A 1970s oil and gas boomset the pace for explorationin the Bass Straight with allthe appropriate legislationin place and deep waterdrilling. Coal extraction inthe Latrobe Valley also tookplace. This has allegedlycaused depletion of ground

water and coastalsubsidence.

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USGS Coastal Marine and Geology Program.


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Correlations between mining, subsidence

and earthquakes.

Studies now show that in the Gulf of

Mexico constant deep water drilling

offshore has caused the land to subside

leaving the area vulnerable to hurricanes

Katrina was a category 5 storm; it was

followed a few weeks later by Hurricane

Rita. Had this taken place prior to drilling

the results would have been different.

http://www. triplecrisis.com/offshore-oil-drilling-and-hurricane-risks/2012.

Sbxdaily.com


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Mine subsidence in Colorado.


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Wetland Loss.


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Subsidence, Earthquakes and Fracking.

Two separate studies areproviding insights into theearth-shaking consequences ofthe gas extraction process

known as fracking. One in theUnited States and another inthe United Kingdom.

U.S. Geological Surveyseismologist William Ellsworthsaid geologists have noticed astrange increase in

earthquakes that seem man-made.

In Arkansas, dozens of earthquakes near wastewater disposal

sites related to the state's huge Fayetteville Shale deposit led theArkansas Oil and Gas Commission to shut down an existing

disposal site and issue a moratorium on the development of new

ones. Mother Jones May 2012.


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So, does CSG cause subsidence and

earthquakes?

The way companies dispose of fracking waste can,

which means that other types of energy-related

activity that rely on fluid injectionenhanced oilrecovery, enhanced geothermal systems, carbon

capture and sequestrationalso have the potential to

cause quakes. The evidence suggests that we can addearthquakes to the growing list of CSG hazards,

alongside air pollution, tainted drinking water and

potentially outsized carbon emissions.

Mother Jones May 2012.


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WORSE CASE SCENARIO.

On the 25th 2007 gas drilling on the Indonesian island

of Java triggered a "mud volcano" that killed 13 people and

has rendered four square miles (ten square kilometres) of

countryside uninhabitable for years.A report released by a team of British researchers said the

deadly upwelling began when an exploratory gas well

punched through a layer of volcanic rock 9,300 feet (2,800

meters) below the surface, allowing hot, high-pressurewater to escape. The accident was then called a volcanic

mud eruption, which leads people to believe it was a natural

eruption. [Richard A. Lovett National Geographic News].


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Seismic Data and current well distribution

[ASP] Australian School of Petroleum 2009.


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EARTHQUAKE RISKS: GIPPSLANDS MAJOR

FAULT SYSTEM:[ASP] 2009.


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Are we monitoring the earth sufficiently

before, during and after drawing

resources?

Adam Pascale,Head of Seismology at Engineering Solutions forMonitoring the Environment believes we should lookmore closely at the impacts of mining. He said:

Some human activities may alter the stress

distribution. When we change the stress distribution ina section of earth, we can alter the way that the earthreleases its stress.


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How Natural is Natural Gas?

NATURAL GAS IS NOT

NATURAL

NATURAL GAS IS NOTRENEWABLE.

GAS DRILLING IN

VOLATILE TERRAIN ISNOT SAFE.

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