While councils and governments wait for parliamentary inquiries and independent scientific reports on the effects of CSG mining, local Kyogle landowner Richard Deem has been making his own investigations into the effects of Metgasco's Richmond Valley Power Station.
Mr Deem has been trawling through Metgasco's reports on the power station and gave a presentation of his findings to the Casino Group Against Gas last Thursday evening, December 15.
"Each drill hole will need 50,000 litres of water, so for the 45 wells, that would amount to 2.25 million litres of water sourced from either from previous drilling or from the town water supply," Mr Deems said.
He said according to the figures in Metgasco's 2008 environmental assessment, the amount of produced water (water that comes back up from the wells and contains salt and chemicals) would be 214,000 litres per day "for the initial wells" which would be put into 30 acres of evaporation ponds.
Northern Rivers Echo
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