Vast areas across the Kimberley, Canarvon, Mid-West and even the Southwest wine region contain shale gas targeted for fracking. While drilling has only commenced in a small number of places, fracking exploration licenses have been issued over many groundwater aquifers, including the Yarragadee north and south aquifers, which supplies Perth and the southwest with drinking water. Fracking represents
a major risk to the quality of our drinking water, as well as sustainable industries like farming and tourism. It has the potential to tear communities apart and massively increase Western Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. As with most resources projects, multinational companies will benefit most from fracking, with jobs and profits largely heading offshore. Frack Free Future is an alliance of communities and organisations around Western Australia campaigning together to stop fracking in WA. We believe in a sustainable future, where we move beyond the damaging boom-bust cycles of the resources industry. The governments of Victoria and Tasmania have recognised the risks fracking poses to their states, and placed a moratorium on fracking. Western Australia should do the same. Our children deserve a frack free future.
