The audio interview

A few days ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Will Neethling, a mining safety surveyor and structural engineer with more than 20 years experience in the field. Although he does not specialize in coal seam gas mining, his contribution was extremely helpful for our project in the sense that he gave us the depth of knowledge that not only we needed, but also helps in bolstering the authority of our documentary and confirm the findings that our research has come to. The interview lasted 27 minutes and was a very pleasant conversation that ranged across all aspects of mining, compared the different industries and regulations and also came to key points such as when Mr. Neethling stated that he would be "very worried" if he happened to live near one of the areas affected by CSG mining. Further on, when I informed him about the fact that several project were to be undertaken near the Warragamba Dam (which holds 80% of Sydney's drinking water) he almost sounded amused by how absurd the situation was, asking "and what about when the rocks fracture and methane gas and chemicals are released into the reservoir? or if the reservoir actually drains, disappearing underneath the rocks?". It was very important for our project to have such an authority to agree with the findings of our research. Unfortunately time constraints will prevent us from using more than a minute or so of his contribution, but it was nonetheless a very interesting interview to conduct