JamaliahYusofYacob - Fracking perlu diharamkan sebagai "ancaman global" kerana ia menyebabkan kebocoran gas metana mencemarkan air dalam masyarakat berhampiran telaga gas, kata seorang Ahli Parlimen Australia yang benar-benar menetapkan sungai ianya dapat membakar untuk menarik perhatian kepada kesan-kesan buruk amalan ini.
Syarikat-syarikat yang mengeluarkan arang batu gas jahitan melalui fracking adalah pembodohan rakyat untuk mempercayai bahawa teknologi mereka adalah selamat, tetapi yang sebenarnya ia telah banyak menyumbang kepada pencemaran laman seperti Condamine sungai terletak di negeri Australia Queensland hanya berhampiran tapak fracking itu, Ahli Parlimen Greens Jeremy Buckingham berkata dalam satu temu bual dengan RT.
‘People should be terrified fracking is spreading’ - Australian MP who set river on fire to RT . . .
Fracking should be banned as a “global threat” as it causes methane leaks contaminating water in the communities near gas wells, says an Australian MP who literally set a river ablaze to draw attention to the adverse effects of the practice.
The companies that extract coal seam gas via fracking are duping people into believing that their technology is safe, while in reality it has contributed greatly to the pollution of sites like Condamine river located in the Australian state of Queensland just near the fracking site, Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham said in an interview to RT.
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"Gas ini bocor keluar dari tanah kerana fracking itu. Mereka mempunyai beribu-ribu telaga gas sekitar sungai ini, di seluruh laman ini. Mereka menggerudi, mereka Frack, tetapi gas itu tidak hanya mengalir sehingga telaga gas mereka, ia datang melalui tanah, "kata beliau sambil menegaskan bahawa syarikat Origin Energy, yang beroperasi telaga," perlu dikutuk kerana mencemarkan paling salah satu yang sangat2 sungai kami."
Bercakap tentang bagaimana untuk mencegah industri fracking dari merosakkan alam sekitar, beliau berkata Australia perlu mengharamkan fracking sebagai amalan yang tidak selamat sama sekali.
"Apa yang kita sedang menunggu di Australia adalah satu larangan atas fracking," katanya, sambil menambah bahawa fracking perlu dilihat sebagai ancaman global dan menyebarkan perlu membuat orang di seluruh DUNIA yang "ketakutan."
Awal bulan ini, Buckingham datang ke Chinchilla, di barat daya Queensland, ketika berkempen terhadap fracking sebagai sebahagian daripada agenda Green parti. Untuk menunjukkan kesan yang buruk kepada alam semula jadi yang disebabkan oleh teknologi, Buckingham menetapkan sungai Condamine pada api dengan dapur yang lebih ringan dan kemudian dipunggah video di web.
'Industries perlu membaiki masalah daripada melakukan propaganda'
Calvin Tillman, seorang pengasas bersama ShaleTest dan bekas Datuk Bandar Dish, Texas, bergema kebimbangan Buckingham, berkata dakwaan syarikat fracking 'bahawa gas kebocoran daripada sebab-sebab semula jadi tidak tegak untuk penelitian.
"Ia tidak waras untuk berfikir bahawa sungai hanya akan terbakar, bahawa air hanya akan terbakar kerana ini," katanya, merujuk kepada sungai Queensland.
Beliau berhujah bahawa industri, yang menggambarkan fracking sebagai selamat, perlu memberi tumpuan kepada menangani masalah sebenar kerosakan ia menyebabkan bukannya pemasaran aktiviti mereka sebagai mesra alam.
“This gas is leaking out of the ground because of the fracking. They have thousands of gas wells around this river, around this site. They drill, they frack, but the gas isn’t just flowing up their gas wells, it’s coming through the ground,” he said, stressing that Origin Energy company, that operate the wells, “should be condemned for polluting one of our most important rivers.”
Speaking of how to prevent the fracking industry from damaging the environment, he said that Australia should ban fracking as an unsafe practice altogether.
“What we are waiting in Australia is a moratorium on fracking,” he said, adding that fracking should be viewed as a global threat and its spreading should make people around the world “terrified.”
Earlier this month, Buckingham came to Chinchilla, in southwest Queensland, while campaigning against fracking as part of the Green’s party’s agenda. To show the dire effect on nature caused by the technology, Buckingham set the Condamine river on fire with a kitchen lighter and later unloaded the video on the web.
‘Industries should be fixing problems instead of doing propaganda’
Calvin Tillman, a co-founder of ShaleTest and former mayor of Dish, Texas, echoed Buckingham’s concerns, saying the fracking companies’ claims that gas leaks out of natural reasons don’t stand up to scrutiny.
“It’s insane to think that the river would just catch on fire, that the water would just catch on fire because of this,” he said, referring to the Queensland river.
He argues that the industry, which portrays fracking as safe, should focus on tackling the actual problem of damage they cause instead of marketing their activities as environmental-friendly.
Baca lebih lanjut: Keluarga Texas mendakwa syarikat fracking selepas meletus bola api gergasi dari air perigi (Read more: Texas family sues fracking company after giant fireball erupts from water well)
Dalam video promosi, Origin Energy berkata: "Membuat tenaga yang boleh dipercayai dengan cara yang paling selamat adalah sihat obsesi kami," dan dipanggil fracking "Cara yang paling selamat untuk mengeluarkan" rizab gas.
"Jika ia adalah cara yang paling selamat untuk mendapatkan [gas] maka ia adalah jelas tidak selamat. Industri perlu bertanggungjawab dan mereka tidak perlu untuk meletakkan propaganda, mereka perlu menetapkan masalah seperti ini, "katanya.
Kesan negatif daripada hidup bersebelahan dengan telaga gas tidak terhad hanya kepada pencemaran gas metana dan risiko letupan, kerana banyak bahan-bahan berbahaya yang lain yang datang melalui tanah dalam proses fracking.
"Bersama-sama dengan metana dan gas mudah terbakar ini anda juga mempunyai pelbagai bahan kimia yang berbeza yang menyebabkan pelbagai kesan kesihatan yang berbeza," katanya memberi amaran.
Tilman mempunyai pengalaman tangan pertama hidup oleh telaga gas yang walaupun membuat dia keluar dari bandar di mana dia adalah seorang Datuk Bandar pada masa itu. Bercakap kepada HuffPost pada tahun 2011, Tilman menjelaskan keputusannya untuk meletak jawatan dengan keadaan ekologi yang semakin buruk di bandar dengan 60 telaga gas dan 200 penduduk yang kebanyakannya mengadu hidung berdarah dan peredaran buruk sejak penubuhan stesen pemampat pertama pada tahun 2005.
Bercakap ancaman akan berlaku yang fracking kemukakan kepada orang Tilman berkata terdapat insiden dikenali di Texas yang "rumah air juga sebenarnya telah meletup dan orang-orang teruk terbakar," sambil menambah bahawa ia adalah "satu isu yang jelas" di sana.
Pada bulan Ogos 2015, RT melaporkan bahawa keluarga Texas dari bandar Perrin, memfailkan tuntutan mahkamah, menuduh syarikat-syarikat tempatan fracking peringkat tinggi pencemaran gas metana di kawasan itu yang membawa kepada letupan di ladang mereka.
Keluarga itu telah mengalami luka terbakar selepas gas metana dari perigi berdekatan fracked bocor ke dalam perigi air mereka dan dinyalakan pada Ogos 2014, meninggalkan suaminya hilang upaya kekal.
In its promotional video, Origin Energy said: “Making reliable energy in the safest way possible is our healthy obsession,” and called fracking the “safest way to extract” gas reserves.
“If it is the safest way to get [gas] then it’s obviously not safe. The industries need be accountable and they don’t need to put propaganda, they need to be fixing problems such as this,” he said.
The negative impact from living next to the gas wells is not confined only to methane pollution and risks of explosions, as many other dangerous substances are coming through the ground in the process of fracking.
“Along with this methane and this flammable gas you also have the variety of different chemicals that cause a variety of different health effects,” he warns.
Tilman has a first-hand experience of living by the gas wells which even made him move out of town where he was a mayor at the time. Speaking to Huffpost in 2011, Tilman explained his decision to step down by the worsening ecological situation in a town with 60 gas wells and 200 residents many of whom were complaining of nosebleeds and poor circulation since the establishment of the first compressor station in 2005.
Speaking of the imminent threats that fracking pose to people Tilman said there were known incidents in Texas which “water well houses have actually exploded and severely burnt people,” adding that it is “an obvious issue” there.
In August 2015, RT reported that a Texas family from the town of Perrin, filed a lawsuit, accusing the local fracking companies of high-level methane contamination in the area which led to an explosion on their ranch.
The family had suffered from burns after methane from nearby fracked wells leaked into their water well and ignited in August 2014, leaving the husband permanently disabled.
