So confident is the coal seam gas industry of widespread political support across all three tiers of government and so certain of the fickle attention span of the mainstream media, that its spokespeople knowingly utter falsehoods as easily as they breathe in and out.
They film an industry employee on land they don't have permission to enter in an effort to mislead the general public into believing that the employee is a farmer standing on his own land extolling the virtues of coal seam gas.
They make a blatantly false statement in print that has to be rebutted by CSIRO scientists:
CSIRO rejects the claim made in a television commercial aired on Sunday 2 September that ‘CSIRO [and government studies] have shown that groundwater is safe with coal seam gas’.
- 4 September 2012
At no time has CSIRO made such a statement, and nor do the results of CSIRO research support such a statement.
CSIRO continues to undertake research to better understand the impacts of coal seam gas extraction on groundwater quality and quantity.
CSIRO has stated on the public record that coal seam gas extraction is likely to pose a ‘low risk’ to groundwater quality through contamination. CSIRO has also indicated that groundwater levels will fall as a consequence of coal seam gas extraction. In some places this could see aquifer levels subside by tens of metres for tens of years; in others it is likely to reduce aquifer levels by several metres for several hundred years.
CSIRO continues to undertake research to better understand the impacts of coal seam gas extraction on groundwater quality and quantity.
CSIRO became aware of the advertisement produced by Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) via a scan of social media on Friday 31 August and requested for the commercial to not be aired.
Because of this whatever-it-takes business culture which is loose with the truth, one has to question copies of print advertising the industry has displayed on one of its websites www.wewantcsg.com.au.
Who is this woman pictured below? Does she really come from Casino on the NSW North Coast? Is she a genuine school teacher or is she an industry employee or even a paid advertsing model? Is she related to someone who works for a mining company? Is she on the staff of a politician who is pro-coal seam gas?
Does she really want CSG?
Perhaps an NCV reader can answer these questions.
Does she really want CSG?
Perhaps an NCV reader can answer these questions.
1 comment:
Truth in advertising the coals seam gas industry. How about full disclosure of the contract Darren Lockyer has signed to show the people his quest to the truth of CSG and how he now has no fears.
So Qld fixed, who would they get for "trust" for NSW
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