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Farmers fear Cecil Plains coal seam gas drilling could cause prime cropping land to subside
Southern Queensland farmers say a lack of data could leave them without recourse if a new $10 billion coal seam gas scheme causes their productive cropping land to subside.
Key points:
- Queensland farmers say a $10 billion coal seam gas project has potential to cause highly productive farm land to sink
- Landholders say an absence of ground-level data could mean they will have no recourse if CSG causes their properties to subside
- Gas company Arrow Energy says that modelled CSG-related subsidence will be “imperceptible compared to natural variation and variability”
Concerned farmers near Cecil Plains, 200 kilometres west of Brisbane, are facing off against Arrow Energy, a gas company approved to drill up to 2,500 gas wells over 8,600 square…
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