Authors
Drew Hutton
Publication date
2012/12
Journal
Arena Magazine (Fitzroy, Vic)
Issue
121
Pages
7-9
Description
In late May 2012 I was called by a landholder near the Queensland country town of Chinchilla to be told the Condamine River, near her place, was bubbling 'like a spa bath'. I was immediately interested since Chinchilla was my home town when I was young and I had never heard of such a thing. I had also been very involved in the campaign to highlight the many issues associated with coal seam gas (CSG) as the president of the Lock the Gate Alliance and was well aware the industry was very well entrenched right through this area. In fact, CSG wells are located in close proximity to this section of the Condamine River. My friend and fellow activist Dayne Pratzky and I then went down to this section of the river and filmed the bubbling. We had a gas metre which registered high levels of methane coming from the river.
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D Hutton - Arena Magazine (Fitzroy, Vic), 2012