YESpertition - 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.
Baca
lebih lanjut: " Bloody
crazy": Sungai-sungai berhampiran tapak fracking pecah dan terbakar di
Australia (Read more: “Bloody crazy”: River near fracking site bursts into flames in
Australia (VIDEO)
"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.
