Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Mining Laws in NSW are changing, but it is still an understatement.

IMG 3783 Energy Forum Faces
Besides being not enough it is not swift to deliver and it does nothing about the leases already granted  to these money hungry energy companies like Metgasco, AGL, Whitehaven, Arrow that are blatantly damaging ecosystems that will take a millennium to recover if ever.
IMG 3702 The Metgasco Fiasco lets go in our row!
The N.S.W. Premier,Barry O'Farrell and to a degree Campbell Newman in Queensland have both done an about face on a few of these issues around the lax laws concerning the granting of these PEL's.
Green groups are still not happy as this only effects new leases granted.  The Pilliga Forest is in trouble now and its crunch time there.  We will never be able to rehabilitate an entire forest that houses endangered Australian species by the arc load. We have to have more action in this area immediately and therefore we have to ramp up the pressure on Government while they are catching up to the rest of us out here who appear to know much more than they do.
Photo: Just to give people an idea of how close stage 1 of the approved project goes to houses in Casino. Extracted from this document if you need a clearer view: 
http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/asp/pdf/06_0217_rvps_cgp_ea_s3_projectdescription.pdf
This map shows Metgasco's plans for thirty to forty wells in one small area.
The news laws put restrictions around how close they can mine to certain industry and to people in general.  Although Green groups are not pleased, shock waves are being felt in board rooms across the country as these giant energy corps go into damage control because these laws will directly effect their bottom line price.  This will halt a considerable amount of gas extraction procedures and one could only hope that this is enough to fully break these companies down.  They are what is considered a stranded asset and this is not a great outlook for any future investment from any sector. 

Our Earth is groaning under the pressure the government push for industry across the planet.  Those people who command the highest salaries are so stupid they cannot see the connection between what they are doing and what is happening with global warming etc.  We are killing our planet and there will be no time left soon to turn this around if we do not hurry. 

Government across the planet cannot be trusted to have our best interests at heart.  They have the interests of big business and large corporations and they dress this up to us lowly folk as jobs for the people.  Jobs for the people to die working in an industry that kills them and everyone else while the fat losers in charge make all of the money and sit comfortable way up high away from the poison.

What they are missing here is they will all die as well.  They will not survive and they are not leaving a world for the future of our children.  They are leaving a cataclysm for our children to fight to survive through to start again with NOTHING.  Nothing because these greedy mongrels who were our leaders lied to everyone.  This system that we are part of is something that was a brain wave of the Romans as well as the roots of the differing types of Law as we know law today all came from the Universal Church which went on to become better known as the Roman Catholic Church of Rome.

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