Submission Inquiry into Unconventional Gas (Fracking) Submission February 2015 Matt Grudnoff Rod Campbell Mark Ogge About TAI The Australia Institute is an independent public policy think tank based in Canberra.

1 Response to the Parliament of SA Natural Resources Committee Inquiry into unconventional gas (fracking) January 2015 By email: patrick.dupont@parliament.sa.gov.au AUSTRALIAN LOT FEEDERS' ASSOCIATION (ALFA) Level 5, 131 Clarence St Sydney NSW 2000 2 Executive Summary The Australian Lot Feeders’ Association (ALFA), the peak body for the cattle feedlot industry, appreciates the opportunity to provide input into the Parliament of SA Natural Resources Committee Inquiry into unconventional gas (fracking).

Clive Carlyle Email: Submission to PARLIAMENT OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE Inquiry into: Unconventional Gas (Fracking) January, 2015 I have lived and worked in the lower south east for 30 years.

28 September 2015 1 Parliament of South Australia Natural Resources Committee List of submissions to the Inquiry into Unconventional Gas (Fracking) in the South East of South Australia No.

Page 1 of 8 Submission to: Parliament of South Australia Natural Resource Committee Enquiry Into Unconventional Gas (Fracking) Date: 30 January 2015 Contact: Peter Hackworth Executive Officer Wine Grape Council of South Australia Unit 4, 780 South Rd GLANDORE SA 5037 08 8351 4378 0439 182 411 www.wgcsa.com.au http://www.wgcsa.com.au/ Page 1 of 8 Summary of Recommendations WGCSA believes that approval for Unconventional Gas Extraction (UGE) projects should not be provided without scientific evidence that address the following concerns:  The ability of an extraction bore to maintain casing integrity and therefore isolation from aquifers, not just for the life of the extraction but for centuries after the mine closes  The contamination, as a result of well integrity failure on an aquifer used for irrigation and/or human consumption from: o chemicals/sand used to extract gas o methane and other extracted gases

The science is in on UNCONVENTIONAL GAS AND OIL EXTRACTION.

31 January 2015 Executive Officer Natural Resources Committee GPO Box 572 ADELAIDE SA 5001 Email: patrick.dupont@parliament.sa.gov.au Dear Mr Dupont, Inquiry into Unconventional Gas (Fracking): Submission from the South East Local Government Association The South East Local Government Association is pleased to provide this submission to the Natural Resources Committee’s inquiry into the potential risks and impacts in the use of hydraulic fracture stimulation (Fracking) to produce gas in the South East of South Australia.

Submission to: Parliament of South Australia Natural Resource Committee Inquiry into: Unconventional Gas (Fracking) 30th January 2015 Contact: Peter Bissell Chair, Limestone Coast Grape & Wine Council Winemaker – 0427 852 315 Balnaves of Coonawarra Main Rd, Coonawarra, 5263 Stuart Sharman Convener, LCGWC Unconventional Shale Gas Committee Manager Coonawarra South Vineyards – 0411 241 891 Treasury Wine Estates Memorial Drive, Coonawarra, 5263.

The Global Gas Glut Selected Slides for the South Australian NRC Inquiry into Unconventional Gas (fracking) Bruce Robertson BEc FFin 10 June 2016 Introduction • All investment in the gas industry must be assessed in context of a global gas glut • Excess supply and faltering demand • Globally the contract pricing mechanism is breaking down • East Coast Australia is a high cost gas province • SA onshore gas has even further to travel making it unviable in a post Paris world • SA must compete against cheap piped Russian gas and cheap LNG from the USA • The SA government runs a high risk of backing an industry that will be left stranded in the short term • Source: http://ieefa.org/ieefa-pipe-dream-report-questions-rationale- north-east-gas-interconnector-australia/ 1 Global Gas Glut • The global gas industry closed the 2015 year in a glut with total nameplate liquefaction capacity of 308Mt outstripping import demand for LNG of 245Mt by 26%

The Hon Tom Koutsantonis MP Member for West Torrens MMRE I 7/11 CS Mr Patrick Dupont Executive Officer Natural Resources Committee Parliament House North Terrace ADELAIDE SA 5000 urio Government of South Australia Treasurer Minister for Finance Minister for State Development Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy Level 8 State Administration Centre 200 Victoria Square Adelaide SA 5000 GPO Box 2264 Adelaide SA 5001 DX 56203 Victoria Square Tel 08 8226 1866 Fax 08 8226 1896 ministerkoutsantonis@sa.gov.au Dear Mr Dupont I refer to your letter dated 30 November 2016 requesting my response to the recommendations of the Natural Resources Committee Inquiry into Unconventional Gas (fracking) in the South East of South Australia tabled in the House of Assembly on 29 November 2016.