''LOOK at that, isn't it great,'' said Peter Henderson, the chief executive of Metgasco, as he watched flames coil up from a coal seam gas well near Casino in northern NSW. ''There's plenty more where that comes from.''
The resources company Metgasco holds gas exploration licences covering 5800-square kilometres around Lismore and Casino, an area that produces beef and dairy cattle, sugar cane, nuts and fruit from its rich, chocolate-coloured soils.
It plans to expand this decade from the existing handful of coal seam gas test wells to about 1000 production wells dotted across the landscape, putting the district into the front line of a battle between farmers and environmentalists on the one hand and the rapidly growing gas industry on the other.
Sydney Morning Herald
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