Fucks sake, how can the government see the damage done in the USA by fracking and then in Queensland and still think that the industry gives half a shit with its lies about 'minimal environmental impacts'.

They essentially pump a slurry of chemical dissolvants through the coal-shale seams underground and attempt to collect the resulting chemical-oil-slurry mixture below it..... A child can tell you that this will obviously result in lots of unwanted leakage into surrounding soil and the water-table. Its completely insane that this ever became an acceptable oil-extraction method.

When will people stop voting for the two-party system and move power to parties that want to hold companies accountabke to the environment? Feels like the needle is moving but soooo slowly.