Environmentalists and traditional owners have voiced concerns after an incident involving contaminated water being pumped onto vegetation near a fracking site in the Beetaloo Basin was reported this week, raising concerns of what could happen when more wells are drilled in the region.
According to an incident report released publicly on Tuesday, filed three days earlier, Imperial Oil and Gas, a subsidiary of Empire, reported rainwater was pumped off an enclosed above-ground wastewater storage tank at its Carpenteria Five well near Borroloola and mixed with wastewater, leading to an estimated 2,000 litres of contaminated water being pumped onto nearby vegetation.
much ado about nothing
So, what is the contamination – salt? Chemicals? Rainwater? There will always be objectors but please can they articulate what they ARE objecting to? Or can NT Independent inform us exactly what that contamination is?
This incident is precisely why banning fracking in the Beetaloo Basin is imperative.
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