"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
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Yes, except the oil is washed up into the Triassic/JUrassic sandstones by
the Great Artesian Basin hot water (!) Most gas stays in the Permian.
Disgusting water quality, one of my headaches. Holes crumble in the coal,
that's the engineers' problem...

Also, COoper Basin is very dispersed--small oil targets, widely spread.
I'm running my little leggies off doing the environmental for most of thje
smaller companies. And it's mostly in a Park. Not to mention Ramsar
treaty wetlands of international importance. At least I see water and can
go for a canoe if there's time (not...) No sailable water though. Must
visti Burke & Wills graves instead of driving past all the time...


jlrogers wrote:
We have less challanging environmental problems. Our problem is that most
of the easy oil and gas is gone. There's far more left than has been
harvested over the last hundred years, but the required technology to get it
has just been developed. That, along with new 3-D sismographic software,
coupled with a hundred years of logging data, has reduced the risk greatly.

I can't see water (desert area) unless I go at least 300 miles from home.

At the risk of starting something that might lure you both away from
*real* sailing, check out one of these-

http://www.windisfun.com/buggyplan.html

http://www.kolius-sailing.com/Dinghies/blokart.htm

DSK