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Australian MP sets river on fire, blames nearby fracking

2016-04-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CBC: An Australian MP is blaming seeping methane from a nearby fracking site for making it possible for him to set Queensland's Condamine River on fire. Jeremy Buckingham a Greens party MP for New South Wales posted a video of the incident to his Facebook page on Friday. As of Saturday afternoon, it had been shared more than 50,000 times. "Unbelievable! A river on fire. Don't let it burn the boat," he says in the video. "The most incredible thing I've seen. A tragedy in the Murray-Darling Basin."...

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