Queensland LNG enforcement unit to investigate 'flammable, toxic' water in Chinchilla bore near CSG project

THE State Government has called in its LNG enforcement unit to investigate why a household water bore on a Chinchilla property has suddenly become flammable and apparently toxic.

Landowner Brian Monk blames the extensive coal seam gas operations in the region, including the controversial practice of fracking which has been used there.

But coal seam gas company QGC said science and logic would indicate that had nothing to do with it.

Mr Monk feared he had exposed his grandchildren to the apparently noxious gases flowing from the bore, which has become "radically worse" in recent months.

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