In formally initiating the Queensland election campaign by asking the Governor, Penelope Wensley, to dissolve parliament yesterday, the Premier, Anna Bligh, remarked that Queensland campaigns are usually characterised by wild cards.
They’re also a wild ride.
This election campaign will be no different, and Coal Seam Gas will be one of the most interesting of many intriguing and important issues.
If the major political parties are both framing the state election as about managing the fruits of prosperity, then the boom in Coal Seam Gas and Liquefied Natural Gas production is at its heart. In a state economy always characterised by its export orientation, whether from agricultural or extractive industries, Coal Seam Gas has been seized on by the Bligh government as the vehicle to “transfer our wealth from mines to minds”.
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