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April 26, 2016

Australian MP Sets River on Fire to Protest Fracking
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An Australian politician has set a river on fire to protest the gas
drilling technique known as fracking. Video shows Green Party MP Jeremy
Buckingham leaning out of a small boat and setting the river in
Queensland ablaze with a lighter.

Jeremy Buckingham: "Sometimes a picture says a thousand words. Have a
look at this: the Condamine River in South West Queensland on fire, the
fracking just a kilometer away, methane coming up, and now the river is
alight. Unbelievable, the most incredible thing I've seen, a tragedy in
the Murray-Darling Basin. This is the future of Australia if we do not
stop the frackers who want to spread across all states and territories
and do this to your community."



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