Comments on: Can farmers live with CSG? The war over co-existence http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/01/30/can-farmers-live-with-csg-the-war-over-co-existence/ now with extra source Sat, 18 May 2013 09:24:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mark Duffett http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/01/30/can-farmers-live-with-csg-the-war-over-co-existence/comment-page-1/#comment-235846 Mark Duffett Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:53:13 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=345251#comment-235846 Why 'tomorrow, the politics of the CSG debate'? Wouldn't a far more useful and interesting contribution be to examine the validity of "fresh ground water...will be depleted" "aquifer depletion and subsidence from...fracking" and "if you start putting roads and pipes in, it will upset the surface flows along the plains and everything will get washed away" fears? This the sort of sterile 'debate' that leads to poor decision-making, arising from a scientifically illiterate populace. I hope an examination of the hydrogeological issues will follow very shortly. In a different vein, I have to admit that "farmers...ploughing the delicate vertisol soil of the floodplains...are cutting-edge, using groundbreaking technology" is one of the funniest things I've read in Crikey for a long time ;) Why ‘tomorrow, the politics of the CSG debate’? Wouldn’t a far more useful and interesting contribution be to examine the validity of “fresh ground water…will be depleted” “aquifer depletion and subsidence from…fracking” and “if you start putting roads and pipes in, it will upset the surface flows along the plains and everything will get washed away” fears?

This the sort of sterile ‘debate’ that leads to poor decision-making, arising from a scientifically illiterate populace. I hope an examination of the hydrogeological issues will follow very shortly.

In a different vein, I have to admit that “farmers…ploughing the delicate vertisol soil of the floodplains…are cutting-edge, using groundbreaking technology” is one of the funniest things I’ve read in Crikey for a long time ;)

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