'Unknown unknowns': Coal seam gas ban around one of Queensland's worst water contaminations

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The risk of spreading toxic groundwater from one of Queensland's worst environmental contaminations prompts a ban on coal seam gas drilling in an area where companies are already extracting gas.

In 2017, the environment department revealed testing had found gas-contaminated soil 25 kilometres further south of the excavation exclusion zone.

He said the 10-kilometre buffer was"based on groundwater modelling and is to minimise potential impacts from the former Linc site". He said the Government had done"considerable work to monitor and manage the site's environmental impact including installing a groundwater monitoring network".

 

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Lets hope the the upcoming court case can either identify if it was Linc Energy who polluted or CSG extraction

qldpol AnnastaciaMP is Queensland really ready for even more fossil fuel extraction in view of this story?

There will come a time when water is more valuable than gas.

Sorry Queensland this is what you all want.The environment doesn’t count when it comes to money.Adani will do this harm on an industrial scale.

QLD had created a no-go zone for gas extraction 10 kilometres around the former Linc Energy site in the Southern Inland In Canada n Ohio rusting gas taps r left on d ground of abandoned mines

Arrow energy is a bit dodgy. They are part of the petro China group and they push push push.

There's nothing unknown or uncertain about this - every example we have of fracking causes massive environmental damage.

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