The CSIRO is accused of having a conflict of interest after releasing a report on coal seam gas that says fracking has little-to-no impact on the environment, while critics also question the sample size and location of sites studied.
The CSIRO has been accused of having a conflict of interest with the coal seam gas industry after releasing a report that says it found fracking has little to no impact on the environment.Six fracked gas wells were tested, chosen by industry, out of the 19,000 wells in QueenslandThe CSIRO and GISERA have been contacted for a response
An environmental scientist from Queensland's Griffith University, Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe, said that sample size "doesn't pass the pub test". "There's simply not enough sites that are tested and also I think there could be a concern that the sites were chosen by the gas industry itself," she said.GISERA's website states its alliance agreement with CSG companies "provides a robust and transparent governance framework to ensure that GISERA's research is demonstrably independent".
"What you've got is a situation where the gas industry is funding and overseeing research into its own impacts and then that research is being used to influence decision makers at all levels of government."
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