SANTOS is not welcome at all on GOMEROI LAND!

North West Alliance

Uniting in friendship to save precious farming and cultural lands there will be a free Barbeque cooked by Uncle Mick Horn (Red Chief Warrior) and a gigantic "human sign" photograph to be taken as well to highlight the seriousness of the issues at hand here with Coal Seam Gas and farmland and Water.

If you need more information contact  Megan Kuhn on 0427 476232.   Big numbers are required for this project so get along to Donnelly Playing Fields on the Namoi River Flats  on Maitland Street Gunnedah NSW Today!!

SANTOS is an irresponsible company killing country.

There will be no place for such greed orientated outfits in the new paradigm ahead of us all for the future of this country we walk on.   No room for politicians and corporations who hold hands while lying to the faces of the ordinary people who continually say they have no social license to continue.
 
Images @ Eminpee Fotography

Testimony of a CSG Drill Rig Worker

 From the NAMOI COMMUNITY HUB

22nd April 2013.

I contacted the Gasfield Community Support group after hearing Laurence Springborg saying on the radio that no workers in the CSG industry had become sick, and the air and water tests were good quality.

I started in the industry in 2008, and worked for 3 ½ years on a mobile drill rig. Initially I was employed by Mitchell drilling who were taken over by AJ Lucas. With the exception of one well, at all other times Mitchell drilling /AJ Lucas were contracted to Santos. I was employed as the “offsider” initially, graduating to senior drillers assistant.

One of the tasks was mixing chemicals into the mud pits to pump down the drill string. There were different polymers used. They pumped “mud” down the drill string. (Salt water, KCL and polymer JK261, (a lubricant)). On an average lease, if they were not taking losses, you would use an average of 12 tons of KCL and 15 pallets (720 drums /10,800kg of polymer) to keep the viscosity up and lubricate the drill bit. The polymer was mixed in the pits through a hopper. The polymer had to be sprinkled into the hopper and it was blowing in the face, in the eyes; we were constantly breathing it in. This happened for hours at a time.

Driving through the North West

Uncle Mick

 I  was privileged to stay with Uncle Mick Horne in Gunnedah  in Connadilly Street and he was such a wonderful host.  We helped him unpack his utility after the huge trip away over to the Pilliga Forest and the Corroboree.   We settled down for a much needed cup of coffee in the afternoon shade in the back yard with the Ducks, Chooks, Dogs and a Killer King Brown Snake.

Uncle Mick took us up to the various places in Gunnedah that had cultural significance to the Red Chief Warrior Stories.  He has done so much work towards saving culture and taking care of boys who are out of line in the city.  I read many newspaper aticles and read many wonderful stories about his very interesting life.

Flour Mill in Tamworth on the way home to the coast

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

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