Queensland coal seam gas debate fires up

The future of Queensland's irreplaceable farming land remains at risk as a result of the extraordinary impact the booming coal seam gas industry was having on rural Queensland. The Federal and State Governments have now signed off on multi-billion dollar export projects that will take the industry to a new level of investment and production. As Pip Courtney reports on Landline, farmers and green groups are dismayed by what they see is the indecent haste of this latest resource bonanza.

Source: Landline (ABC AUSTRALIA). Broadcast Date: Sunday, 21st November, 2010.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• coal seam gas
• fracking
• gasland
• Queensland
• QGC
• Arrow Energy
• climate
• Six Degrees
• Friends of the Earth
• Agforce
• Great Artesian Basin

[TheDingbat76]

wake up ppl!!!! ban this csg rubich & kick out these curupt goverments... more power to the people!

[gnads1]

All of Australia will rue the day our corrupt & irresponsible Labor Govts allowed this abomination to occur because they broke the state. I hope I live to see the day when Anna Bligh & Stephen Robertson are jailed for this criminal act ... along with any other politicians who have allowed or will allow the expansion of this environmental disaster ... the profits of which will be taken by Foreign companies.

Looks like the Federal Labor Govt pollies i.e. Swan & Ferguson should join them.

[titaniumtube]

The Monty Python Reality show in The Smart State, Queensland.

[natezeppo]

My great grandfather served ww1 in france, my grandfather ww2 in kokda my Father in vietnam for what so these low scum politicians can destroy this Nation that was built buy our ancestors.Foriegn ownership of nearly everything we have built, once our country is owned by foriegn elements we are owned we need a big wake up in this country a leader who has a heart soley for Australia and its people.

[mime1926]

Gas explodes!

The wells steel parts become projectiles!

Populated areas become bomb sites!

[ZoeElliot]

This whole issue makes me feel ill. I don't understand where the debate comes in. The industry is still in the testing phase. There has been contamination, leaks of chemicals and gas, and dodgey handling of issues by the companies. Times up. No more chances!

[Kokoda144]

notice they always put a woman into talk when they have bad PR to report or ppl are uneasy.

[Kokoda144]

@gnads1 what do you mean labor govts, both labor and libs are useless pricks, ppl should vote in an entire new party to shake things up.

[MTwithcool]

Profits being put before all our lives, gas fracking will polute the water table and the air we breath and can never be undone. our seeds for food is now owned by Monsanta.

Google Monsanta also look into the Brigalow Corporation. our soveriegn rights to own our land have been removed and the Title Fee Simple has been changed. Google Brigalow Corporation.

And Julia Gillard's on carbon tax to save our children.

I feel doomed.

[AaronMcLoughlin]

Stephen Robertson Qld Mines and Energy Minister is using the wrong analogy when he says that taking the 'first' car out of the garage is the same as drilling for gas and seeing what will happen.

Stephen the worst that can happen with a car is it will blow up or run someone over. This is not the same as killing water, food and life for generations, and doing that with full knowledge.

[TheBrommers]

A great quote here that I also received in a standard response to my CSG inquiry to Anna Bligh's office:

The Premier of QLD: " this means jobs for a generation..." ask yourself how long a generation is - does that sound sustainable?