Rural Taranaki horrified by fracking risk

01 Apr 2012 04:39p.m.

Hardie wrote:

And the only 'pollution' they could find on Sarah Roberts property was cattle effluent. There is another word for that! Some of you people are going to be very embarrassed when you discover that you are being used as 'useful idiots' by the Greens

21 Feb 2012 04:56p.m.

coralfish wrote:

Minister Heatley says the "standards were pretty poor" overseas. Does he not know that NZ follows the American Petroleum Institute Standards? It says so in Taranaki Regional Council's hydrogeological risk assessment report on fracking. Most of the problems have been documented in the US! Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/Rural-Taranaki-horrified-by-fracking-risk/tabid/817/articleID/242319/Default.aspx#ixzz1mz84awzZ

13 Feb 2012 11:03a.m.

Mike wrote:

It must have been fracking that caused the Christchurch liquifaction, that was mud bubbling to the surface!

Nothing like scare tactics and horror stories to justify anything. Hitler did it with jews to justify genocide and today its being done to justify any claim from global warming, restraint of trade, protection of EU 1st world status ...

We have organised outrage, and no one has really looked at what fracking is realy about. If go searching you can find out about fracking, but if your looking to be anti anything you can always find people with oppinions to back up your outrage. Fracking puts materials (mostly water/sand) down the well, typically like over 1.5 km down while 'well water' is from only near the surface, like the top 100 mtrs. First they drill the well, seal it up so it wont leak (they dont want to lose the hydrocarbons as thats money) before they even start fracking. The fracking water ponds are not chemical wastes and still need to reasonably clean for them to have them on the surface to pass eniromental concerns - and are cleaner than farm effluent ponds. Fencing the waste water is mostly to stop idiots drowning etc. That water is then pumped back down like 1.5 km afterwards. Many greenies could make a case that fracking is cleaner on the enviroment than dairy farming!

10 Feb 2012 12:09p.m.

gravitydude wrote:

Ready for a mud volcano in your backyard?Google "Lapindo Lumpur" to see what can happen when natural gas production goes awry.

10 Feb 2012 11:03a.m.

Sumner Burstyn wrote:

Manu Caddie says: "the safety of this practice in NZ must be investigated independently asap." You are right Manu. On Feb. 27th Cloud South Films (makers of This Way of Life) will launch a feature documentary project investigating every complex angle of fracking in NZ. You can check in with: www.good.net.nz/fracking

10 Feb 2012 10:01a.m.

David Bowden wrote:

Uncle Sam wants you!! - Watch out southern, central and northern Hawkes Bay, Gisborne, and the Kaipara, North American petroleum companies, Apache and TAG have NZ mining permits to explore beneath your feet. Should groundwater aquifers like the Ruataniwha and Heretaunga get contaminated with fracking fluid (some ingredients know to be carcinogenic - e.g., Benzene), then primary industries who are heavily dependent on groundwater will suffer long-term. The wine, fruit, sheep and cattle industries should be very concerned about this accelerated exploration. We should have the right to know what Fracking fluid comprises of? Why has this not been revealed? Where do we as New Zealanders draw the line? Do we want a health, clean environment for our children to grow up in? Clean and green...but content to sell off petroleum to world markets in a short-term bid to pay off government debt?

10 Feb 2012 08:25a.m.

Daz Caulton wrote:

I remember watching my parents protest when i was a kid. Time for our generation to start. This will be one of the biggest acts of corporate environmental terrorism that this country will see. The gas companies are owned by shareholders that don't even come to our country but rape other people's. The only way to stop this is follow Australia lock your gates get on the news get the rest of the country fired up . PROTEST HARD . No government or corporation has the right to put deadly toxins into kiwis. Water is the key to NZ's economical future. Our government see royalties not loyities. TIME FOR ECO WAR

10 Feb 2012 02:08a.m.

Rigel wrote:

Well said Stevie, I hope there will be more Kiwis whose brain are in their heads than those whose got them at their a$$, selling NZ at the guise of advance technology and even belittling those countries that opposed it.. is an absolute stupidity.

09 Feb 2012 10:02p.m.

Bazza wrote:

Residents of Taranaki & elsewhere have good reason to be concerned about fracking. The oil companies could buy NZ from petty cash & probably have already, but with a compliant pm payoffs will be minimal. After watching the privately produced dvd 'Gaslands' which covers fracking effects all over usa I believe it is only a matter of time before groundwater contamination starts making plants, animals & humans very sick. Of course they will be ridiculed etc the same as in usa & left with shattered lives like in usa. But thats ok if one has shares in mining +/or oil because they will make a profit & dairy industry shares wont. But wait, there is more; one of the tricks victims of fracking could do is turn on the water tap & set fire to the water.

09 Feb 2012 09:59p.m.

Bazza wrote:

Residents of Taranaki & elsewhere have good reason to be concerned about fracking. The oil companies could buy NZ from petty cash & probably have already, but with a compliant pm payoffs will be minimal. After watching the privately produced dvd 'Gaslands' which covers fracking effects all over usa I believe it is only a matter of time before groundwater contamination starts making plants, animals & humans very sick. Of course they will be ridiculed etc the same as in usa & left with shattered lives like in usa. But thats ok if one has shares in mining +/or oil because they will make a profit & dairy industry shares wont.