Australia’s Agriculture and Energy Sectors Clash Over Water

Australia’s Agriculture and Energy Sectors Clash Over Water by Nadya Ivanova, May 1, 2012, Circle of Blue
Australia has no comprehensive studies of the cumulative effects of the coal seam gas industry on the environment. Just as in North America, where runaway development of deep oil and gas shales has outpaced responses by federal and state regulators, Australia’s oversight community is struggling to keep pace. … “I just feel we have no choice. Our water is a finite resource. Once it’s damaged, that’s it,” said Lisa Norman, a Liverpool Plains farmer…. “Coal and gas resources come and go, they come up with new sources of energy — but our water: we all need water to survive.” … “It is wartime. There is no question agriculture is fighting for its life,” … “People out there were a lot more desperate for money, and they’ve just come out of drought…They are getting pathetic money, but they accepted it.”

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