CSG feeds our voracious appetite; and kills people and animals

(Our voracious appetite for energy, until recent times energy generated almost entirely by fossil fuels, and the resultant economic infrastructure built around those fuels, has led humanity down a technological path that leads to increasingly difficult times.

An example of that inevitable conclusion is discussed by Tim Barlass in today’s Melbourne Age, explaining how the deaths, human, and animal, can result from our rush to exploit the coal seam gas industry.

It’s another example of how human initiative and our inquisitive nature surges ahead of regulation, making up the rules as we go.

However, we have it backwards as illustrated by the suicide last October of Queensland farmer, George Bender, and the death of hundreds of farms animals.

What is happening, and has happened, on the Chinchilla farm is simply another example o how we put our wants ahead of our needs, we need to reverse that and in doing so preserve the likes of George Bender – Robert McLean.)

Chinchilla's George Bender - he suicided over his
frustrations with the coal seem gas industry.

The death of up to 1000 pigs has been blamed on pollution associated with controversial gas mining, in a submission to a Senate inquiry into regulation of the coal seam gas industry.

The claims, backed by graphic photographs, were made as part of a 90-page submission by the family of George Bender, who committed suicide in October after years of battling gas mining on and adjacent to his property.

Deaths occurred at the property Valencia in Chinchilla, 300 kilometres west of Brisbane, at the piggery established in the 1940s and run by Mr Bender for decades. He won numerous awards for his prize pigs at local and state competitions.

Read Tim Barlass’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “1000 pigs dead due to gas mining pollution, says submission to Senate inquiry.”