What Lies Beneath

While the exploitation of underground coal seam gas promises riches for energy companies, in many parts of rural Australia it is causing deep consternation – and driving an unlikely opposition alliance of green activists and conservative farmers.

By David Leser.

David and Megan baker would like to know if you’d be interested in buying their 1050-hectare property on south-east Queensland’s Darling Downs.

For half a century it’s been lovingly cared for in the face of just about everything nature and human endeavour could hurl at it: drought, flood, fire, the oil shocks of the early ’70s, commodity price crashes and escalating costs of production.  Read More

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