Seen on the 12-5-12 on the wall of the No.3 Dam at the Bibblewindi Water Treatment and Gas Gathering Facility, a Membrane Repair Company.
What is wrong Santos?
Do your Dam Liners leak because they have holes in them?
Are they leaking CS water heavily polluted with the Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria bought up from the Coal Seams, and is this water leaking into the walls of the Dams thus weakening them, and putting the Ground and Surface Water at risk of serious Contamination?
Is this why the level in the No.3 Dam was lowered, so repairs could be made to the Liner so the Dam would not Collapse?
For how long has Santos known of the Faulty and Leaking Dam Liners?
Was it since Santos revisited the True Date of the Discharge at Bibblewindi and found it was not June 2011 but December 2011?
Just curious, but has the DITIRS Maitland been told about your problems with a leaking liner? I know they were told about the Liners being under-cut and thus not supported and thus the liner is subject to a lot of stretching which it was not designed for, rather like stretching a bit of Glad wrap too much, that tears also.
Well I hope that they have or are looking at and repairing the liner on the No.2 Dam.
It is strange that after all the complaints to the Supervisory Bodies, Eastern Star Gas and Santos, nothing was ever done, that is up until now.
Then again maybe not, these Gas Companies do nothing until they are boxed in, and exposed for the non compliant Companies they are.
It is really a pity that these so called respectable Gas Companies are such a bunch of Cowboys. I really thought the Santos was going to be different than Eastern Star Gas, but no it turns out that they are the same.
The liners in all the Evaporation and Coal Seam Water storage ponds, along with those that hold the concentrated water and Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria (SRB), are, at least here in the Pilliga area, well past their use-by dates and as the material underneath contains rock it is only a matter of time before holes are worn in the liners, and this allows the Concentrated water to escape along with the Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria into the local environment and thus contaminate the local surface and ground water systems, and could lead to a collapse of a Dam Wall.
Now there is a thing. DID THAT HAPPEN IN DECEMBER 2011 AND CAUSED THE LARGE SPILL THAT CREATED THE EXTRA 0.5 HECTARE NOT ON THE GOVERNMENT OR EASTERN STAR GAS RECORDS, SO CONVIENTLY FOUND IN JANUARY 2012.
One other possibility is that maybe GEOTEST PTY LTD are doing a cavity check for void spaces behind the liner, like those discovered at the Bohena Ponds (and subject to an earlier article), which if not discovered will lead to a full or partial Dam Wall failure, and that can suddenly release a large volume of water that will cause a large Kill area like the one not found on any records at the Bibblewindi Water and Gas Gathering Facility.
SANTOS, YOU NEED TO COME CLEAN ABOUT THE PROBLEMS AT BIBBLEWINDI AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE PEL238 or are you hiding the evidence by turning over the remaining Black Surfaces as is being done at the Bibblewindi Spill Site?
SANTOS, THE PILLIGA STATE FOREST IN NSW AUSTRALIA, WILL BE YOUR INDONESIA IN AUSTRALIA