See if you can put these two things together.

First, have a look at the photo of the Pilliga Scrub.

Pilliga Scrub

It’s the largest continuous remnant of semi-arid woodland in temperate New South Wales and contains many threatened animal and plant species such as the Pilliga Mouse, Black-striped Wallaby and South-eastern Long-eared Bat.

Now, take a look at this map of 500 wells, to be dug 500 metres apart across untouched thousands of hectares of it, all joined by pipes to direct the gas from the wells to a central pick up and shipping point.

Eastern Star Gas Field Extraction Wells

The proposed gas field development area covers approximately 85,000 ha and includes Pilliga East State Forest, Bibblewindi State Forest, Jacks Creek State Forest, and Pilliga East State Conservation Area, plus some small areas of Crown Land and private land. The project aims to produce, process, compress and transport CSG from within Petroleum Exploration Licence 238, Petroleum Production Lease 3 and Petroleum Assessment Lease 2.

The project proposal includes the following:

• 550 production well sets, initially, on a 500m spacing
• 1,000 km of gas and water gathering systems (ie pipelines),
• access tracks,
• a co-located gas processing and compression plant,
• a centralised water management facility and
• ancillary infrastructure such as offices and workshops.

Ok.

Got that.

The only thing that comes to mind for me is this:  Are we mad?

What’s happened to us that we can contemplate this behaviour?

Perhaps the best explanation of our gas field behaviour is by this dog on Youtube, below.  It seems to be the only explanation of human behaviour whose only impact is self-destructive.

Perhaps, when you view this video you may wonder, as I do, why the dog seems so human-like in its behaviour.

Don’t bite your own leg, fellas; don’t drill the Pilliga Scrub to death,

M

Oh; this information is from Cate Faehrmann’s web page and you can visit it to help stop this example of what poor humans do when they start biting their own leg off:  http://catefaehrmann.org/2011/05/save-pilliga-our-largest-temperate-woodland/