Cougar Energy ordered to keep its UCG Kingaroy plant closed
after putting cancer causing chemicals in the underground water.
The Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) will order
Cougar Energy to keep its pilot Underground Coal Gasification plant near
Kingaroy closed until the Government is assured that groundwater resources
are protected.
This follows advice received by the department on 13 July from Cougar Energy
that water quality tests taken on 29 June detected benzene and toluene in
groundwater monitoring bores close to the plant.
Gas pipeline - Water pipeline - High voltage powerlines
and towers.
Land is being taken to accommodate these infrastructure expansions.
Residents have been aware for sometime of the pending infrastructures being
placed on their land. The easements required for such developments will have
an impact on the valuation of properties and the required 'buffer zones'
will have an impact on the usefulness of land in the vicinity. The Bunya
Mountains is under threat from some companies wanting to shortcut the distance
from point A to point B by going across instead of around!
Ammonia
may also reduce the ability of cilia to clear dust and other irritants from the
upper respiratory
tract (Earth Tech 2001). Severe cough and increased
mucous production result from exposure to ammonia at
concentrations from 50 to 150 ppm. RADS
is an inflammatory disorder of the airways characterized by cough, wheezing
and difficulty
breathing
(bronchial hyperactivity) caused by inhalation of a high concentration of
irritating fumes, gases
or smoke. It is also known as “irritant induced”
asthma.
One of the nation's largest power generators has agreed to end a
years-long federal lawsuit by paying $4.6 billion to reduce pollution that
has eaten
away at Northeast mountain ranges and national landmarks, The Associated
Press has learned.(Read
more)
Acidic particles and vapours are deposited via two processes - wet and dry
deposition. Wet deposition is acid rain, the process by which acids with
a pH normally below 5.6 are removed from the atmosphere in rain, snow, sleet
or hail. Dry deposition takes place when particles such as fly ash, sulphates,
nitrates, and gases (such as SO2 and NOx), are deposited on, or absorbed
onto, surfaces. The gases can then be converted into acids when they contact
water.
Folks, the
following is a little bit of information picked up that is not too difficult
to
digest: Oxides of Sulphur are known to produce acid
rain (Tarong Energy's emissions range 11 and 24 on a scale of 0 - 100).
Oxides of Nitrogen cause breathing problems (Tarong’s emissions for this
rank on 100 - very high and has been for years). Coal is a very impure
fuel. It is mostly carbon but there are impurities like silicon, aluminum,
calcium, magnesium, sodium, titanium, arsenic, potassium, sulphur and
mercury, uranium and thorium. In fact 73 different elements have been found
in coal. Various inorganic impurities do not get burnt when coal is burnt.
These impurities turn into coal ash - between 3-30% depending on the 'type'
of coal. The poorer the quality (such as Kunioon Mine) the higher the %.
This burnt coal ash produces bottom ash (that which stays in the bottom
of the chimney), and fly ash which can make up to 10-85% of the coal ash
- depending on the type of burner, the type of boiler and the type of coal
etc. What concerns me is Tarong Energy is reported to emit many times more
impurities due to it's age, combine that with 'low grade coal' and you
have a witches cauldron. Seems the 'economy' is way more important than
people or land. Without people and land they don't have an economy.
Study
shows Aust has world's worst polluting power stations.A new
report by CARMA ranks Australia's power companies as
the world's
worst polluters per capita. After studying 50,000 plants, it found Australia
generates 11 tonnes of emissions per person every year.
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