Will Hodgman's Liberal government in Tasmania has just extended the blanket ban on fracking across the island state for another five years. Good on Mr. Hodgman for that, he obviously knows that Tasmania has enough conventional gas reserves, both offshore and onshore, to keep the state's economy going for a damn long time yet and to meet domestic energy needs.
He also knows that fracking would subject the pristine wilderness, farmland and
He also knows that fracking would subject the pristine wilderness, farmland and
waterways of Tasmania to huge contamination risks, Hodgman might be pro-
development but he knows where to draw a line in the sand.
Big question is, will the new Labor government in Queensland, a government that
owes its life to Greens preferences, draw the exact same line which Hodgman did
in Tasmania & make a legislative distinction between conventional gas extraction
and fracking forms of gas extraction and impose an indefinite ban on the latter?
Until all the earth's natural gas reserves are used up, which most probably wont eventuate for at least two hundred years, there is absolutely no need for fracking anywhere. Environmentally it's flawed, and economically all it's doing is lessening the value of natural gas.
Big question is, will the new Labor government in Queensland, a government that
owes its life to Greens preferences, draw the exact same line which Hodgman did
in Tasmania & make a legislative distinction between conventional gas extraction
and fracking forms of gas extraction and impose an indefinite ban on the latter?
Until all the earth's natural gas reserves are used up, which most probably wont eventuate for at least two hundred years, there is absolutely no need for fracking anywhere. Environmentally it's flawed, and economically all it's doing is lessening the value of natural gas.
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