Coal seam gas wells south of Chinchilla in south-west Queensland.
Looking at an aerial map of western Queensland, the landscape is dotted with wells reaching down to the Great Artesian Basin.
Every day, more wells are sunk, drilling to coal seams below the aquifer and sucking gas back up to the ponds hundreds of metres above.
The extraction of the resource - if you read the legislation - is for the betterment of the people of Queensland.
And it is boom time for mining companies, the thousands they employ in the gas fields and surrounding communities, and for the State Government who laps up the royalties.
ABC News
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