The Queensland government is yet to deliver on a promise to list all chemicals used in coal seam gas mining on a website.
The State government says it has banned the use of cancer-causing chemicals collectively known as BTEX.
But even so, farmers and residents in the gas fields of southern and central Queensland are concerned about the impact of fracking - the process of injecting water into the cracks in rocks to extract the gas - on underground water storages they use for cattle, crops, domestic purposes and, in some cases, to drink. Read More.
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