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May 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Only 2.5 per cent of private water bores across Queensland’s Surat Basin will be adversely affected by the coal seam gas (CSG) industry, a new study has found.
Industry critics have continually raised concerns about the impact of CSG mining on aquifers.
The Queensland Water Commission on Thursday released the draft Surat Underground Water Impact Report (UWIR) for public consultation.
The report, which contains maps that show where water levels are expected to be affected, will be used as part of a new regulatory framework to manage the impact on groundwater.
Of the 21,000 private bores in the region, 85 are expected to be affected within three years. The report found a total of 528 would be affected in the long term.
Resource giant Santos welcomed the report, saying it showed the impact would be minimal.
“Almost all of the landholder bores within our operating areas will not be adversely impacted,” a Santos spokesman said in a statement.
Santos began regular monitoring of more than 100 surface and groundwater locations within its gas field operations in 2010.
The results are publicly available online.
Santos says it has also partnered with an environmental engineering firm and the CSIRO to reinject treated water from coal seams to top up Roma’s town water supply.
Submissions on the UWIR close on June 22.
Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney told parliament the report showed the industry would not have as big an impact on the environment as anti-CSG protesters made out.
“This report provides some very inconvenient findings to some of the alarmists out there whose real agenda is to attack the fossil fuel industry per se,” he said on Thursday.
He said the report did not look at the reuse of water, which can be recycled for irrigation and other purposes.
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