Atoning for my past spins, now toiling in the truth mines.
Feb 22, 2023 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
The Albanese Govt's approval of Santos' 116 gaswell Towrie Project has attracted a lot of criticism, & rightly so, but it is a tiny fraction of the fracking and CSG already underway, and planned, for inland QLD in the next few years. A🧵👇
Firstly, where are we at? The QLD Gasfields Commission said in early 2021 that there were about 8,600 gaswells in operation in the "Surat Basin" - industry speak for an area roughly corresponding with the Western Downs, Maranoa, and parts of the Central Highlands.