Dear People, episode 4a, Coal Mines and Adani.

Dear People.  

0ur Australian Prime Minister and Government are on the way to innocently and humbly allow the Adani Coal Mines to destroy beautiful country, homes and natural world in the Galilee Basin,

These ancient artesian springs, Doongmabulla (from Google images) and Mellaluka are in danger of disappearing if the Carmichael Mine gets to work. You can see more images online. 

According to www.stopadani.com/robs_our_water-   Adani plans to use at least 12 billion litres of water each year from the Great Artesian Basin and nearby sources.  Do they pay for this water, or do they get it free?

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www.envlaw.com.au/carmichael-coal-mine-case  has images of the Moses3 Lagoon which is part of the Doongmabulla Springs Complex, potentially affected by the proposed mine.

The Traditional Owners are the Wangan and Jagalingou People, spokesman Adrian Burragubba, who say “the project would devastate their ancestral lands and waters, totemic animals and plants, and cultural heritage.”

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Further search online shows me there are already about 50 coal mines in the Bowen Basin to the east of the Galilee Basin and these have shorter lifespans than the Adani Mine.  Queensland already had 29000 people in jobs 2013 produced 284 million tonnes coal. 
Other pending mines  in the Galilee Basin  (China Stone,  Hancock, Clive Palmer’s China First, Guildford Coal).  These could go ahead if Adani wins.  This further compounds damage.  There is possibility of a rail line to Gulf of Carpentaria and this is near a possible “future food bowl of Australia” -  plans to develop NT.  Coal dust in the winds?  Cyclones!

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There is danger of Fire.  Centralia in the USA’s Apallacians is a town where the coal seam has been on fire for 50 years, since 1962.  In 1992 the town was condemned.  50000 people had  been evacuated.  The Apallacian Mountains were once a haven for life.  A YouTube video “Apallacian Sacrifice Zone” made by William Morse in 2015 has great visual impact.  Journalist Chris Hedges speaks of Sacrifice Zones of America on interview by theagenda with steve paikin. 2012.   The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) has stopped coal mining, has closed 8 coal fired plants.  Gas is cheaper.

 Morwell in Victoria 2014 had brown coal on fire which took 45 days to extinguish. Ash, smoke, benzene and CO had been a Health disaster for residents of town.  Firefighters even suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning.  The manager of the French Company responsible was on trial for the massive fire.  The company had a” minimal compliance attitude re fire risk”, creating a greater problem to put it out.  Nearby grassland was on fire and embers came from 70 at one time surrounding bushfires

 In India the Jharia Coalfields in Bihar State has now 70 recorded fires, the first one was reported in 1916.  Burning for 75 years, 40 million tons out of the area’s 2000 million tons, has been destroyed.  Danger area was/is 450 sq km.  30 metres below the surface.  YouTube video is by Pramod Mathur. 2008.

The Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan is an inferno 200 foot hole.  A Soviet industrial accident ignited an  underground methane gas cave.

 The oldest coal fire in the world may be Mt Wingen near Scone, NSW.   6000 years on fire.  It has a Dreamtime story.   YouTube video by Seeker 3 years ago listed “Some Places on Earth have been on fire for 6000 years”.

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How could fire be put out?   Fire retardant chemical is often used. Eg in California.  However it can cause worse harm because it is a Hormone Disrupting Chemical.  It beggars belief that our RFS and Military et al can broadcast such poison with impunity.  There was the case of residents near Williamtown RAAF Base complaining of health crises regarding foam retardant which had leached for decades into nearby waters and environment.  

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As it is we may not be alive on planet  Earth for many more years.  20000 satellites are up there to beam in 5G frequencies 3 to 95 GHz all over the world.  For reference see the current issue of Nexus Magazine.  The whole world will be a microwave oven. A microwave oven cooks at 2.4 GHz.  Unless we stop the madness.  It is as if there is “no tomorrow” so mad are they to sell us Internet toys.  Brussels is against 5G and even considers risks of 4G (2.4GHz…)  Then 6G and 7G will finish the planet off to be a place only for artificial intelligence aliens.  One can be upset and try to stop it!!!

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Adani’s mines will give jobs to only about 800 workers  at recent reports.  Full automation.  Just truck drivers.  Finance of such big ventures might be by Banks who” create money out of thin air” in the form of debt.  Managers are good at raking  billions of dollars in their own direction.  How else can so many in China etc become billionaires, buying up the goods of the earth so greedily without caring if anything is left for anyone else?  There might be people in future who could use a bit of coal.  No good if none is left.  There might be a nice future if we took care of the land.

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My own concern derives from a story I read years ago- 

that Farmland is fertile precisely when coal lies underneath.   

I searched and searched for the original articles-  in my books, journals etc, in vain. 

The clue arrived via ABC Radio National’s Science Show 27/4/2017 and I wrote it in my diary,  “Humates in coal.” 

www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow   Key word is “humates’ and we get “Soil carbon. A Saviour in locking up carbon.”  22 April 2017.   Here follows part of the transcript:-

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…..“Robin Batterham: I think carbon in soil is actually a saviour, and the real challenge is all about a comprehensive approach, so-called regenerative farming, which is very much looking at how the inorganic, the organic or the biota and the soil all interact with root systems. And it's a world of great complexity. There is no single magic bit of science here that can fix things up. But it's quite clear that if you take a comprehensive approach you can achieve results which are really different.

Robyn Williams: When it comes to the brown coal you don't dig it up and then mix it into the soil do you, on the farm?

Robin Batterham: There's people who would advocate mixing up some of the layers of brown coal, the leonardite, which is the oxidised material near the surface of the coal generally, or extracting the humates from it which tend to be the part of the coal which does most good. But you're looking there at what we might call an off-farm carbon input, and that's good, but there are many sources of that, and the challenge of course with off-farm inputs is that transport is one of your big efforts you've got to consider, and you're simply not going to be transporting Victorian brown coal, even if it kept jobs in the valley, all the way to the Northern Territory pasturelands, that just doesn't add up.

Robyn Williams: No, of course not. And what about the volume of stuff off the farm, is that going to be enough, do you think?

Robin Batterham: Well, it's interesting. There are really two parts, I would argue. Firstly, this interaction between roots, between bacteria, and between fungi. It's a very complex system. It is not fully understood, far from it, although with genetic typing these days we can understand much more of the thousands of interactions that go on. That's one whole side which is how do you encourage more of the bacteria and the fungi so that you get actually more carbon in the soil, you get greater root penetration, you get greater water retention and so on.

One part of that is you tend to have to keep cover on the soil, you tend to have to have crops that can grow deeper roots, you tend to use less of the inorganic input like urea based fertilisers and the like. But the other whole part of it, and to answer your question, is that adding organic material to the soil as well generally helps this whole process, and that organic material might be humates, fulvates extracted from brown coal, for example. It might well be simply compost where you've collected everything that you can from your neighbours, from your own farm, composted it up and put it back into the soil.”

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All  this would matter a lot to farmers in the Hunter Valley where coal mines have caused people like Peter Andrews to be forced to sell their homes and land they have tended and even regenerated for decades.

Brown coal from the Latrobe Valley is a different thing from black coal up near Bowen or  Mackay in Queensland.   Coal from Galilee Basin is low quality, high ash.  Risky and unlikely to be financially viable.  They need to realise $100 per tonne but prices can be as low as $50 a tonne.   Can anything grow in coal dust?  Can it oxidise into a more benign substance? My guess is the principle of the thing holds some truth.   It is the full panoply of tree root secretions, enzymes form fungi, bacteria, which maintains the life force in the soil.  It is a crying shame to destroy a living system and replace it with a dead landscape.

 Please Keep Earth Alive!

Following on from brown coal we get Wujinsan!  A Chinese remedy which is a purified fulvic acid.  This is one of the humic acids.   Robert Faust is on YouTube describing this.  He is shown purifying the material from natural sources.  The mineral  can accumulate heavy metals providing  purification of the land so that plants need not suffer.  Some pristine deposits exist in China.   Take this medicine and clean up heavy metals from body, avoid cancer.  Keep this medicine in the earth and grow good food.

One wonders if leonardite is mined and sold to farmers is it adding more heavy metals to the soil?  In which case the harm it might do makes it a wiser option to leave the brown coal  in the ground.  Soil contains magical alchemical properties and one wishes that governments might regard good country with respect rather than hurrying to destroy it.  The natural ground cover is called “overburden” by miners like Gina R.  Native animals have value too.

This brings to mind the late Professor Harry Butler,  naturalist and environmental consultant even to mining companies.  He prescribed that the regeneration operation  begins even before mining starts.  Seeds and cuttings of the plants natural to the area were collected and grown in nurseries ahead of time.  The vegetation grew even better when put out in situ because the mining process had softened the soil.  Dr Butler was named Australian of the Year in 1979 and  listed amongst the greatest Australian Living Treasures 207 .  His support for the Franklin Dam in Tasmania early 1980s made many people unhappy,

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One big danger is Chemtrails and Cloud Bombs.    Military industrial complex is creating a global  sky loaded with fly ash from coal fired stations, laced with nano aluminium and a host of toxic particles,  black carbon soot and any number of unmentionables.  The increasing number of possible coal mines if Adani goes ahead would result in mountains of toxic ash waste and dust.  Some entities would like to blanket the Earth with heavy metals.  Are we compliant about such a horror?  We should wake up and take care.  5G  could be part of it.  Signals travel better in an ionised metallic atmosphere.  Like in The Hunger Games!?

Just yesterday the clouds were shaggy brown with black,  like iron filings.  They are not normal,  as you can see in  photo  above.    I have been watching the sky for many years and this is getting worse.    I do not like the look of those weird clouds.  More poison in the name of technology.

 

24/4/2019 photo.

Chemtrails  are found to be made of Fly ash contain heavy metals.  There could be more sinister items too eg nanochips.   No wonder we have cancers and diseases of the immune system.    I do not like the idea of coalfire ash being put up into atmosphere and raining down on earth for umpteen years as long as it might happen.

We can do without the everlasting contamination of shipping out ports and destination ports with finely milled coal.  Not only coal but iron ore is causing suffering to people who live near ports.  Finely milled Iron ore  releases particles of low grade radioactive thorium into the environment.  It is not fair to humans to expose them to this danger.  Better to leave iron ore solid in the earth!  Does anyone out there care?

 This is a further reason not to have coal mines. 

Please leave the coal in the ground under a protective blanket of soil and biota.  

This could go for iron ore and uranium etc too.   Roxby Downs was a place of sacred Mound Springs,  ancient artesian springs.  Uranium mining has used billions of litres of water and left 9 billion tons of toxic waste above ground.  The Traditional Owners, the Arabunna People have called for a stop to the theft of water.  They cared for the Mound Springs for thousands of generations of family, diving in and cleaning the pools.  They have great Rights from ancient times and it would be wise to give Respect.  To my mind there can be NO Apology until Australia has been restored to its rightful condition environmentally.  I try this by growing wildflowers.  Never give up.  Times may change, in this Age of the Sixth Sun.

Prof Bill Gammage describes how Aboriginal people  actually cared for every inch of land and tended it- in “The Biggest Estate on Earth”   publ 2012.  

Jackie French’s “Let the Land Speak” publ 2013 has given us a fantastic view of this Land from earliest days, from both sides of the frontier.  “The land will determine our future too……We need to listen to our land.  If we fail, we will stumble into a future we can neither predict nor understand.”

We humans can try to imagine better jobs for all.   No more Black Lung.  This is not fair on workers who are keen to do a good job for their families.  Enough suffering has been endured by Ancestors.  We are inheritors of generations of trauma.  We are a multitraumatised species, as are the trees and the elephants.  Our mistakes happen when we have miswiring of our brains due to trauma.  Birth trauma included. 

We are also capable of great good and creativity.  See how many great musicians and artists and bioneers and imagineers are alive in this Age.  Words of cheer are needed to balance the despair we might feel in the face of possible catastrophes.   All may have been as it was so that Lessons might be learned.  Better choices.

 I see this lovely photo of Doongbulla Springs and I rejoice that such beauty still exists.  

Google images.

Please May the lovely Earth continue to exist for the Future  with our blessings.  It is a prayer and may there be Magic and Love  for Heaven’s  sake.

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