Farmers in southeast Queensland's Scenic Rim district are paying to have their water bores tested to prepare against possible pollution from coal seam gas (CSG) drilling.
Keep the Scenic Rim Scenic spokesman Innes Larkin said landholders had paid $800 per well for tests on about 20 bores.
They hope that if CSG does pollute their groundwater in the future, these baseline tests will help them prove it.
"Landholders here are angry they're having to come up with sometimes thousands of dollars to do this testing, because the government and Arrow Energy will not help," Mr Larkin said in a statement.
"These baseline tests are like insurance. They should have been done before any drilling, but this is a good start."
Mr Larkin said even with the Liberal National Party's (LNP) commitment to stop coal seam gas production in the Scenic Rim, the threat to underground water systems remains very real.
SMH
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