The ground is on fire at this NT cattle station and no-one can put it out

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The owners of a remote cattle station in the Top End have an unusual problem with their cattle yards — the ground is on fire and extinguishing it is proving nearly impossible.

 

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Potassium nitrate from the cow urine interacting with the soil and other waste. This is not a new phenomenon and may in fact have been the clue centuries ago that showed the Chinese how to invent gunpowder. Climate change, pfft the man is an idiot.

faully33 Wtf!?

This must be a story to encourage fracking in the NT. When there is a primary water table only 300 feet below, and fracking is encouraged to poison or destroy the precious unlimited renewable resource so you believe secondary water is our only source of gaining water.

So, now spontaneous combustion?!

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