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March 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Farmers in southeast Queensland’s Scenic Rim district are paying to have their water bores tested to prepare against possible pollution from coal seam gas (CSG) drilling.
Keep the Scenic Rim Scenic spokesman Innes Larkin said landholders had paid $800 per well for tests on about 20 bores.
They hope that if CSG does pollute their groundwater in the future, these baseline tests will help them prove it.
“Landholders here are angry they’re having to come up with sometimes thousands of dollars to do this testing, because the government and Arrow Energy will not help,” Mr Larkin said in a statement.
“These baseline tests are like insurance. They should have been done before any drilling, but this is a good start.”
Mr Larkin said even with the Liberal National Party’s (LNP) commitment to stop coal seam gas production in the Scenic Rim, the threat to underground water systems remains very real.
“The aquifers under us are part of much a bigger system in which they are also drilling,” he said.
“Contaminated water will not stop at lines on a map.
“Even the industry admits accidents happen.”
Katter’s Australian Party says a new study shows the state government has poured almost $7 billion into subsidies for the CSG industry over the past five years.
The fledgling minor party has promised to give landowners the right to lock miners out of their properties if elected to power in the March 24 Queensland election.
The party’s state leader Aidan McLindon said the figures had smashed the claim that Queensland was benefiting from the CSG industry.
“This report shows that the almost wholly foreign-owned coal seam gas industry is sending its profits offshore and having its expenses paid for by Queenslanders,” he said.
“In return, Queenslanders get to have their land taken, their way of life and businesses destroyed, their wealth stolen through fallen property prices, and their environment laid to waste.”
Mr McLindon says Labor and the LNP plan to expand the number of CSG wells from 2000 to 40,000 in the next 18 years.
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