Gas Watch 84 - Local AGL employees treat community and CCC with contempt
Date: 01-May-10
Author: Hunter Valley Protection Alliance
On 13th March, 2010, and on many occasions since, Siobhan Barry, a local employee of AGL Energy, has been asked this question:
Please advise the reasons why your company considers the representations made by your Company in relation to S. 30 (in relation to the required abandonment of part of PEL 4) as commercial in confidence. I would have thought that the community had a right to know why some of the PEL was being continued and other areas of it abandoned.
Siobhan Barry has either refused, neglected or is unable to provide an answer to this.
On 27th April, 2010, and on a number of occasions since, Siobhan Barry has been asked:
Structures, earthworks, plant, roads, fencing, etc., at the Spring Mountain drilling site is much more extensive than it has been at other core sites. This appears sinister and not consistent with what you have done before. Why is there so much more infrastructure and do you propose to do anything other than the core holes at Spring Mountain.
Siobhan Barry has either refused, neglected or is unable to provide an answer to this.
Last year, and on many occasions during 2010, Siobhan Barry has been asked:
Will AGL Energy place an irrevocable covenant, on land currently owned or purchased in the future by or on behalf of AGL within the Broke/Bulga exploration area, prohibiting the construction of a gas processing plant, a water treatment plant or any other industrial plant or structure?
If so, please provide a copy of the wording of the covenant.
If not, please provide reasons.
Siobhan Barry has either refused, neglected or is unable to provide an answer to this.
This last question is of utmost importance to the community. If AGL will not agree to permanently prohibit the development of a gas processing plant, water treatment plant or other industrial plant or structure on their land adjacent to the Broke village, then the community would be entitled to assume that AGL intends to build its plant right there, putting the Broke village in its shadow.
But we hear nothing from Siobhan Barry, even though these questions have also been put to her through the Chair of the Community Consultative Committee.
Looks like AGL Energy has given up consulting with the community, if it ever really did!
If AGL Energy through Siobhan, John, Letitia, or anyone else comes knocking on your door looking to sign you up so they can invade your property with wells, pipes, flares, toxic water pits, trucks, trailers, tanks, etc., etc., tell them to get off your land. They have nothing to offer other than ruining your property values, and those of your neighbours.
PO Box 120 Broke NSW 2330
www.huntervalleyprotectionalliance.com
May, 2010.
Contact: Graeme Gibson 02 65791062
