Lets get the fracking details correct, for frack's sake:
"In my home state of Western Australia, where commercial extraction of unconventional gas is in its infancy, fracking has been used in exploration since the 1950s and more than 780 wells have been safely fracked. Around the globe, more than two million wells have been fracked, most in the US. Access to onshore gas in the US has been credited with supporting the country’s economic recovery and has reduced carbon dioxide emissions back to 1996 levels…
The state’s Department of Mines and Petroleum says it knows of no scientifically proven case of fracking causing aquifer contamination in any country.
Whereas anti-fracking groups claim high well failure rates, credible US sources suggest the figures are much lower: 0.04 per cent failures after a year and 0.06 per cent after 30 years. Of recorded well failures, I am informed all have been minor, close to the surface and easily remediated.
This is the type of information that needs to be put forward to balance the public discussion and enable sensible consideration of a potential power source. The industry needs to respond to genuine concerns about fracking.
The unconventional gas industry has been largely missing in action — apparently unable to counter the rapid flow of alarming, skewed and misinformed arguments put by its opponents… Communication is critical and presently it all seems to be coming from one side of the debate." [Norman Moore]
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