Solid Energy's unconsented fracking

6/08/2012 2:55:57 a.m.

Craig wrote:

None of this is a problem, Solid has well informed the locals. Sensationalism by bored reporters. With out investment there are no working classes and no toilets.

30/07/2012 11:44:30 a.m.

Jeremy wrote:

Be more tramnsparent with mining operations! Stop keeping the public in the dark. It only makes you politicians all look biased and suspicious. If you are going to pretend a government is running a country and not corporations - If you are going to pretend environmental regulations are for the public's best interests instead of using them as corporate offsets. Stop allowing corporations to rape the freedoms and innovations of the private sector/ small businesses in this country. Corporate bribes and ETS abuses are leading to economic and environmental justifications that use the working classes as their toilet.

26/07/2012 7:44:19 p.m.

Morihana wrote:

Its still happening now at a farmsite on Rotongaro Rd in Huntly at Solid Energy's Underground Coal Gasification pilot plant. They set fire to the coalseam several hundred metrs underground by pumping compressed air in and igniting the coal seam, then suck the combustion gases out through another wellhead, which is predominantly CO and Methane, for use in commercial operations such as Huntly powerstation. Burning the coal seam as they do leaves a massive cavity deep underground. The earth above collapses into the void causing the ground to fracture. There are several watertables above the seam (4 or 5 at different levels, separated by hard strata)and as the earth collapses into the void and the ground fractures, the watertables drain into each other, disrupting the natural flows of these aquafers. This is happening as we speak. Do you thinkm it is acceptable? I dont!

26/07/2012 4:49:49 a.m.

Pete wrote:

This is shocking! Time to stop fracking in NZ.