Whole Lotta Frackin' Going On - Songs about Coal Seam Gas

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A compilation of songs and interviews about 'fracking'and coal seam gas (CSG) mining, designed to raise awareness of the dangers of fracking to our environment, food, water and society, using songs in a wide range of genres. Thanks to all the artists who donated their songs. CD sales support environmental organisations working to stop this destructive process.

What is Fracking? Why all the fuss?

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a technique used to speed up the flow of coal seam gas (CSG) from underground rock formations. A mixture of water, sand & chemicals is pumped at extremely high pressure into the gas-bearing formation. The process fractures the rock, opening up pathways for trapped gas to flow to the well.

There is considerable concern about the damage caused by the CSG mining industry and the lack of research into the risks involved. Short-term greed is compromising the welfare of future generations. The extreme imbalance between the way the mining companies' rights are measured against the rights of others in the community is indicative of a system that has lost its ethical compass.

Large numbers of chemicals are used in the fracking fluid. The National Toxics Network (NTN) has found that only two out of the 23 most commonly used chemicals have been assessed by our industrial chemicals regulator (NICNAS). They have called for a moratorium until a comprehensive hazard assessment is carried out for all fracking chemicals used in Australia, including their risks to human health, ecotoxicology and environmental outcomes (air emissions, releases to groundwater and watercourses), as well as a full costing of the long term public burden of the cleanup of contaminated areas and the impact on the increased landfill capacity needed to deal with the waste products created by these mining methods. Read the full report at ntn.org.au.

For information on the devastating effects of CSG mining in America please watch the documentary 'Gasland' by Josh Fox. For the issues in Australia and what to do about it visit lockthegate.org.au
and watch “Stop Coal Seam Gas Now” by Ross Pepper.

How can you help? Pre-order the final CD in progress... This is a collaborative effort to raise awareness and funds to prevent mega-energy corporations from exploiting coal seam gas at all costs (for us) and all profits (for them). Contact us at anandobharti(at)hotmail(dot)com if you can in participate in any way: radio, press, distribution, new songs, ideas, anything!

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releases 12 August 2011
Tracks 2, 6, 11, 13 & 19 edited from Ros Elliott’s interview with Dayne Pratzky on BayFM 99.9
* Tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 12 & 15 produced and recorded by Anando Bharti anandobharti.com, mixed by Anando Bharti and Evan Sun ihomerecords.com

Mastered by Paul Gomersall gomersall.com (Byron Bay). Cover art by Laura-Doe yoninet.com

This album in digital stores by Ariel Kalma via the worldbeat compilation label music-mosaic.com - promoting harmony between cultures and nations. Find the songs on iTunes, other digital stores & tinyurl.com/frackingsongs. Also ringtones for iPhone 4 on iTunes (look for the titles) & for all other phones myxer.com/frackingrings

Executive Producer: Laura-Doe yoni.com

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tags: acid jazz avant garde chillout csg fracking wastewater new age world fusion Byron Bay

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Track Name: Laura-Doe and The Chaps - Lock the Gate
You know that coal seam gas, (coal seam gas)
It’s a bad gas
Yeah that methane gas
It’s a really baaaad gas

There’s nothing natural or clean or green
‘bout drilling down into those coal seams
With acids & benzene & toluene
Please don’t tell me that gas is clean

We need to take a stand before it’s too late
We have the right to lock the gate

You know that coal seam gas
It’s a bad gas
And when you know the facts
It’s a really mad gas

Doesn’t it seem completely insane
To mess with our water and what will we gain
Fuel for a lifestyle we cannot sustain
If we poison our planet we can’t start again

We need work together, make a stand
Keep those exploration units off our land
There's no time to hesitate, take this step before it’s too late
Lock the gate, lock the gate, lock the gate

We can’t let these giant’s determine our fate
When the slick PR rep says he’d rather not wait
He wants you to think he’s your new best mate
Don’t budge an inch once he’s in it’s too late
Lock the gate, lock the gate, lock the gate
Lock the gate, lock the gate, lock the gate
Lock the gate, lock the gate, lock the gate, yeah
Track Name: Rhett Brambleby - Gasland
Gasland Rhett Brambleby

Heed the warning.
Taste of things to come.
Gasland is coming.
Coming soon to a place you love.

Behold the beautiful morning.
Stand up warriors green.
Battle lines keep forming.
Come now it's time to lead.

Cause we've no time to stall,
now the market marches free.
And now the giant's in our town
Go and test the water now.

Fracture and blast her
Drill down, poison the well
In the guise of energy saviour
All stamped with the dollars we hail

Oh precious twinkling stream
Old ocean deep and wide
Holy places near and far
Up for sale, sacred life

And with no sense to appeal to
Should we just take that deal
And will another warning fade
With all our cries and the money that's made.
Track Name: Surreal MC feat Shea, Jasmine and The Awesomes - Act Locally, Think Globally
Big business loves the dough, the government conducts the flow
Prostituting our Mother, Earth getting fucked for dough
Every time I'm rapping I;'m attacking and their minds explode
'Cause my flows are more toxic than hydraulic fracturing
They slaughter animals and all the flora and fauna
Emissions cause a change in the climate till it's more of a sauna
Hotter than the flammable water that they pour for your daughters and sons
Without a thought for their poor little tummies and the smog in their lungs
It's a war they keep going as long as the dollars will come
They spend millions on propaganda to keep the populace dumb
They say they want to keep the economy strong
But for every one that profits there's a hundred struggling and wondering what's going on
All for corporations bought the nation for donation, causing mortification from ocean waters to the core of the nation
You know I won't stop till we all know the facts and we take Australia back before it's Gasland

They come here today to rape our Mother, they take more than just profits away
It's time to Lock The Gate!

Time to act locally and think globally
We can bring the world back from the brink hopefully
Only way to make it definite is ifv we all start rapine' it
People power, V for vendetta, yeah, that's what the message is
I represent the populace from the forest to the metropolis,
Raising consciousness, they respond to ominous, monotonous economic monster that's on top of us -
Crappy capitalism, yeah, we've had enough of this
If coal seam gas reps request access to your premises just tell 'em to get back, off the property
Tell them you're locking the gate, yeah, think twice about legal advice before signing on the dotted line
Documents they try to con us
We didn't inherit this planet from our parents, we borrowed it from our kids
So you know we won't stop till they all know the facts and we take Australia back before it's Gasland

They come here today to rape our Mother, they take more than just profits away
It's time to Lock The Gate!

Big business loves the dough, the government conducts the flow
Prostituting our Mother, Earth getting fucked for dough
It's not what you know though, it's what you can prove
'They got the dollars though' - yeah, but we got the truth
'They got the white collars though' - yeah, but we got the youth, we got the future on our side
'They got the news, they got the courts, they got the parliaments and the police too'
That's true, but we got the streets, justice and the people on our side - don't be feeble
It's about time to stand up for what we believe in and see it through
Me and you can overcome evil, but what we say will be ignored
What's important is what we do
You know it won't stop till we all know the facts and we take Australia back before it's Gasland
My people won't stop till we all know the facts and we take Australia back before it's Gasland
Track Name: David Holmes, Andrew Bean, Niel Bekker - My Water's on Fire Tonight
Fracking is a form of natural gas drilling
An alternative to oil cause the oil kept spilling
Bringing jobs to small towns so everybody’s willing
People turn on their lights and the drillers make a killing

Water goes into the pipe, the pipe into the ground
The pressure creates fissures 7,000 feet down
The cracks release the gas that powers your town
That well is fracked….. Yeah totally fracked

But there’s more in the water than just H2O
Toxic chemicals help to make the fluid flow
With names like benzene and formaldehyde
You better keep ‘em far away from the water supply

The drillers say the fissures are a mile below
The groundwater pumped into American homes
But don’t tell it to the residents of Sublette Wy-O
That water’s fracked…. We’re talking Benzene…

What the frack is going on with all this fracking going on
I think we need some facts to come to light
I know we want our energy but nothing ever comes for free
I think my water’s on fire tonight

So it all goes back to 2005
Bush said gas drillers didn’t have to comply
with the Safe Drinking Water Act, before too long
It was “frack, baby, frack” until the break of dawn.

With the EPA out it was up to the states
But they didn’t have the money to investigate
Sick people couldn’t prove fracking was to blame
All the while water wells were going up in flames

Cause it’s hard to contain all the methane released
It can get into the air, it can get into the streams.
It’s a greenhouse gas, worse than CO2
Fracking done wrong could lead to climate change too

Now it’s not that drillers should never be fracking
But the current regulation is severely lacking
Reduce the toxins, contain the gas and wastewater
And the people won’t get sick and the planet won’t get hotter

What the frack is going on with all this fracking going on
I think we need some facts to come to light
I know we want our energy but nothing ever comes for free
I think my water’s on fire tonight
Track Name: Ariel Kalma feat. Joel Kalma - Fracking Fluid
'Fracking Fluid'

By Ariel Kalma feat. Joel Kalma
© 2011

First they come and knock at your door
You think clean gas is what they’re looking for
There’s no free lunch at their table
The sweetness of their offer’s just a fable
A grand an acre’s a lotta money
But the price is a lotta trouble, honey

Watch for the vinegar that comes with the signature

Chorus:
The cash stopped you thinkin, and the water that you’re drinking
Is gonna start hissing, ‘cause here is what you’re missing-
What they’re pumpin’ in your ground should have you jumpin’, livid!
Here’s what you’ll find in their fracking fluid:
Potassium Chloride, Boric Oxide (can cause coma)
Tetramethyl ammonium chloride. (1121fatal if swallowed)
Sodium Hydroxide. (burns; blindness; edema; and coma)
Poly-dimethyl-diallyl--ammonium chloride. What does that hide?
Propanol: it’s flammable, solvent for the pharmacols
inhalation harmful, poisonous chemical
Butoxy-ethanol: more poison by the mouthful.
Then there’s Methanol, small amounts kill us all.
Turns into formaldehyde, watch out for your eye
Ten ml and you’re blind, 30 ml and you’ll find it
Hard to walk, then hard to talk, heart’s all blocked
Can’t ask them to stop,() no help from the cops ‘cause
You signed a contract, your water got whacked
deep pockets got the deck stacked
You got fracked

{Chorus}
Ethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether
screws your nerves, blood, kidneys, lymph system and your liver.
Hydrochloric Acid will burn right through you,
and acrylic copolymer’s full of solvents too:
methacrylic acid methyl methacrylate butyl acrilate and buthyl methacrylate
And then there’s Hydroxymethyl Phosphonium Sulfate:
Your liver and kidney functions evaporate
Disodium Octaborate (beat) Tetrahydrate
Sodium Borate? Eye damaged and irritate.
Ammonium persulfate your guts would obliterate
One test of your soil, they don’t need to negotiate
You land goes only six feet down, that’s how we regulate
They can just go under you, so don’t deliberate.

Just lock the gate.
Track Name: Russell Hibbs with Evan Sun - I Am Stone
I speak for rock, cracked, fracked
I speak for stone and the earth beneath your feet

I am stone, old, cold, the ground beneath your feet
I am silver, I am gold, earth that sleeps
I am crystal memory and the opal fire
Set in earth dark and deep, i am the light of a star

And I'll shine my light on you
shine my light on you
Track Name: Brendan 'Mookx' Hanley - Lock the Gate Mate
Lock the Gate Mate!
Brendan John Hanley (c) 2011 (APRA)

Now a farm's a spot, a special plot, where local families live
They earn their breaks - they make mistakes, and they learn to take and give
They stand their ground, work all year 'round, just doin' what the true blue do
Now something's come along, that feels all wrong, so what can we all do?

Chorus
Before too long ... Before it's too late! Lock the gate mate! (Lock the gate!)
Home sweet home ... family estate ... Lock the gate! (Lock the gate!)

Well a farm's a place where you need a bit o' space to grow and nurture things
Your son and daughter, the air and the water ... creeks and dams and springs
Now it's all about right and it's all about wrong and this country, yours and mine
It's here and now, like milkin' a cow and it's in our face this time

'Cause farms are food and farms are stock - and they're how we all survive
For every single farm we lose, Australia takes a dive
Water's precious, so is air, and so's the family land
Get it straight ... Lock the Gate ... Get together and make a stand!

Chorus

There's been people here for countless years ... Loving their sacred land
They faced their fears as strangers appeared and took it right outa their hands
They're still around ... watching now ... as the corporate money machine
Rapes Mother Earth for all she's worth, and we're caught in between

So if you don't want people on your land, just doing whatever they like
You can hang a slate on your old front gate and tell 'em "Take a Hike!"
Get together with friends and neighbours ... form a local mob
Lock the gate ... communicate ... together we can do the job!

Chorus (Twice)
Track Name: Mick McHugh - Lie to Me
Lie to Me
By Michael McHugh © 2011
Remember when I was 5, you sat me down on your lap
You said that life was simple, and that the world was flat
Well, now I understand, what you were trying to say
Oh how I wish you were here to lie to me……..just for one more day
Remember when I was 10, I saw you watching the news,
They were killing, and bombing, and fighting each other, well I, I was confused
You picked me up in your arms and said I’d always be safe from harm
Oh how I wish you were here to lie to me…..just for one more day

The first time I fell in love, thought nothing’d tear us apart
Till life it got in the way, I was left with a broken heart
There’s plenty more fish in the sea you said, I’d never be lonely
Oh how I wish you were here to lie to me…….just for one more day
And then when I finished school, sure I thought that I knew it all
Out drinking, and driving, and chasing the girls, we thought that we’d never fall
Till Gerry took his own life and I learnt that young men could cry
Standing at his grave, you couldn’t lie to me….no, not for one more day
Looking at the world that I live in, nothing you told me is true
Why did you paint such a beautiful picture, what did you have to lose

My little girl turned 5, she sat herself on my lap,
Daddy she said why can’t we drink our water from the tap?
Well, how could she understand, the Gas under our land
Is valued so much more than any child, woman or man
So I looked her in the eyes…and I lied to her…just for one, just for one more day
Track Name: Very Unique Existence - This World
This World

Everywhere we look the earth is raped of its history
Our culture has been lost in the satin sheets of our desire

But we don’t want to be in this world anymore, not the way it is in this world anymore, because we don’t want to be a part of it all, not the way it is in this world anymore because we don’t want to be a part of the fall.

The oil sucked dry by clowns who think there is a never ending supply
The earth stripped bear for our race to spread like ants before the rain

But we don’t want to be in this world anymore, not the way it is in this world anymore, because we don’t want to be a part of it all, not the way it is in this world anymore because we don’t want to be a part of the fall.

We all can change if we wanted to and
We all can change if we wanted to and
We all can change if we wanted to and
We all can change if we wanted to and
We all can change if we wanted to and
We all can change if we wanted to and
We all can change if we wanted to and
Track Name: Back Deck - Queen Barongaroo
Queen Barangaroo

Sparkling southern cross in a temperate sky at night
footprints in the dust, in a long & hurried flight
from modern man to the desert morning,
& the dreamtime, he's never seen.

We shot 'em in their gunyahs, gunned the woman down,
might 'ave left some babies, cryin'on the ground,
then the farmers came, with cattle, like sheep.
They ploughed the forests, till the rivers went to sleep.

Then the miners & the heavy machinery dug deep,
after the christians tried to put ancient culture to sleep,
& send this country's caretakers on walkabout,
while the new owners rip it's guts right out.

Now the country's starved of wildlife while fat pets go to the vet,
over-fed on canned kangaroo, but we don't want li'l Poopsie to die yet....
Have you seen my dot-painting? Heard my didgeridoo?
Maybe you'd like to, over a drink or two.

This country's modern history, we will not forget...
this rapacious man, his growth's not quite over yet -
there's still seams of coal, old growth & uranium too,
& lots of desperates with nothin' better to do

You might find yourself livin' next to a uranium mine,
or a nuclear waste dump, doin' fine with your open mined,
along with the minister for the environment, Queen Barangaroo
& me,
Pemulway, Queen Barangaroo & me,
Jemmulwarrah, Queen Barangaroo & me,
Bennelong, Queen Barangaroo & me...
Track Name: Dave Forbes and Steve Dawson - Poison Well
Poison Well (Copyright 2011. D. Forbes, P. Addie, S.J. Dawson)

Nothing ever grows from a poison well
haven't got time for time to tell
feel the fires coming up from down below
don't go messing with our H2O
They dig in deep with a fracture line
to make a coal seam gas mine
and leave our dreams far behind.

Life's energy is what we need to survive.

Nothing ever grows from a poison well
haven't got time for time to tell
feel the fires coming up from down below
don't go messing with our H2O, our H2O, our H2O.

The kid's got problems, they're medical
they say the cause is chemical
how can this be logical?

Life's energy is what we need to survive.

Nothing ever grows from a poison well
haven't got time for time to tell
feel the fires coming up from down below
don't go messing with our H2O, our H2O
H2Ooooooo, H2Ooooooo

Why can't we just get it right
we got science and hindsight
and something's are worth the fight.

But Life's energy is what we need to survive
Nothing ever grows from a poison well
haven't got time for time to tell
feel the fires coming up from down below
don't go messing with our H2O
Nothing ever grows from a poison well
haven't got time for time to tell
feel the fires coming up from down below
don't go messing with our H2O, our H2O, our H2O.
Track Name: Tarshito - Wake Up
What the frack are you up to
You’re killing our earth
You’re drilling those holes
in the mother who gives birth
To our food and our water
the mammals and our ocean
to the life giving forces
that keep us in motion

Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up
And look what you’re doing
Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up
We gotta stop the drilling
Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up
We love our mother Gaia
Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up
Only love will take us higher

Pumping in those chemicals that seep in the soil
Releasing the gas that burns like oil
Polluting the farms that provide us with food
Poisoning the water “We wanna drink that, Dude!”

Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up
And look what you’re doing
Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up
We gotta stop the fracking
Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up
We love our mother Gaia
Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up
Only love will take us higher

Love for Mother Earth
Love for human kind
Love for all the creatures
A love we must find