I was reading the paper over the weekend and this story caught my eye. The story is basically about a plan to start coal seam gas drilling and there's controversy because it's going to be near the Warragamba dam, which holds a lot of Sydney's drinking water. The controversy comes from the fact that the company plans to use "the fracking technique."
Fracking, apparently, is hydraulic fracturing, which involves pumping a mixture of water, sand and chemicals deep underground to shatter rock...
Published on September 27, 2010 00:24