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  Sorry Vic but people are right to be concerned about the impact of all this on their village. It's not simply a small matter of drilling one bore hole and that's the end of the matter. There is the prospect of a complete transformation of the area for the worse but unfortunately at the Guston meeting the invited guest representing Coastal oil and gas ltd. who is a geologist working for the company was unable to answer any of the vital questions posed to him by members of the audience.
  Crucially he was unable to tell anyone how the gas would be transported from the site if the exploration was, indeed, successful.
  This is very strange for someone in the field not to be in full possession of such fundamental facts.
  He did mention one option which consisted of on site electricity production via a mobile generator running on the gas which would then feed into the grid. No mention of noise or other environmental implications.
  The only other options left, in my mind, would be either a pipeline or thousands of tanker journeys to take the gas off site to some sort of storage depot.
  There were other unanswered questions which left people frustrated which is why, I expect, there was a near unanimous vote against at the end of the meeting.
  In terms of reassuring the village of how this form of energy extraction might affect them I consider it an epic fail.

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