NEW TESTS: Kingaroy farmer Damien O'Sullivan - pictured outside the Cougar Energy UCG plant - has had his bore water contaminated again. Picture: Liam Kidston. Source: The Courier-Mail
A KINGAROY farmer neighbouring an abandoned gas project has had his water contaminated for a second time.
Damien O'Sullivan was told by the Department of Environment and Resource Management this week that a bore on his property showed traces of the naturally occurring formaldehyde and the toxic thiocyanate which has been linked to underground coal gasification in the US.
The Government said that, while it is possible that the thiocyanate is a by-product of UCG activities, it is not used in the UCG process
Mr O'Sullivan was embroiled in the chemical scare at Kingaroy in last year when the bores and his cattle were found to have traces of the potentially cancer-causing BTEX chemicals. His bores have been monitored ever since.
Courier Mail
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