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| Belcoo Frack Free's new banner hangs on the Gates to Hell |
Following the well-attended meeting the campaign group hung the banner on the ‘Gates to Hell’ outside Cleggan quarry near Belcoo where Tamboran propose to drill a shale gas exploration test well.
Campaign group chair, Tom White, explained the banner’s significance:
This banner publicises the fact that Tamboran's partners in Australia, Santos, have been found guilty of polluting an aquifer in the Pilliga forest in New South Wales territory. The aquifer has uranium levels now twenty times higher than the safe drinking water threshold and has elevated arsenic, lead, aluminium, nickel, barium and boron levels.
What is even more disconcerting about this incident is that Santos blamed another company, which they had acquired, for the contamination. This other company was Eastern Star Gas. whose founders Patrick Elliott and Dr David King are also members of Tamboran's board.
Belcoo Frack Free would like to note that this information has been in the public domain for some time now and believes that this should have been taken into account by Minister Foster’s Department when Tamboran's work program was extended in March. That this wasn't taken into account was unfortunate, but should not be overlooked in any future application by Tamboran.
