Ring of fire
The volcano in Tonga is not alone. It belongs to the “Ring of Fire” which tracks the volcanos and fault lines around the Pacific Ocean – up the Gippsland and East coast of Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, Pacific Islands, across to Hawaii, to Yellowstone {the largest caldera in the world} then down to Los Angeles’ San Andres fault line down to Chile. I have seen a poster-sized map of all the fault lines in Gippsland. There were so many fault lines a very large map was needed.
All these areas have been fairly safe in the past but now life is different. Now gas companies are setting off explosions deep within the earth: known as fracking. To frack just one gas well about 16 large trucks, carrying a huge compressor, are lined up in two rows back- to -back.
With the use of 600 truck- loads of water, this combined hydraulic pressure is enough to crack apart and release the gas particles from solid rock five to eight kms deep and for about five kms across. The particles turn into gas when they are no longer under pressure. Just one fracking is equivalent to the combined force of 33 bombs of the type used in Afghanistan. This has been done millions and millions of times to our world.
All gas wells are loosely called Coal Seam Gas but that term covers CSG wells, tight gas wells and shale gas wells. They need to be fracked about 10 times for the life of the well. The gas in CSG wells is released by pumping out contaminated water to dramatically change the pressure deep in the ground.
In the USA alone over a million shale gas wells have been fracked. Qld. and NSW have over 15,000 CSG wells and have permits planned for thousands more. Australia is now almost the largest gas exporter in the world and many politicians are planning to have not only more CSG wells but more tight gas wells that need Fracking.
The first-time fracking was carried out in England it caused an earthquake. The process was banned. Earthquakes in USA have dramatically increased. Oklahoma alone has about 600 earthquakes per day. Gas wells are being fracked up to the edge of USA Yellowstone Park.
This damage from gas mining can never be rectified and the million-year-old gases and toxins cannot be put back and will remain in our water and air forever.