Celia Mackay with daughter Karla and granddaughters Emily May and Laura, demands a reconsideration of her agreement with QGC after a series of indirect impacts from the pipeline construction have increased her production costs.
THE final straw came for Celia Mackay when she awoke to discover the mutilated carcasses of 18 ewes strewn across her paddock.
The latest attack brought the number of stock losses at her Columboola property, south-west of Chinchilla, to more than 100 since the start of 2012.
When she bought the mixed farming operation in December 2010, neighbours had told Ms Mackay there had only been a handful of wild dog attacks in the district during the past 50 years.
But in recent months, these same landholders have reported increased sightings of wild dogs.
Ms Mackay said the removal and replacement of dingo-proof fencing on properties in the district by coal seam gas company QGC to make way for its QCLNG pipeline had created a corridor for wild dogs to migrate from State forest, north of the Warrego Highway, into the cattle and sheep country lining the Columboola Creek.
However, according to notes from meetings between QGC and Ms Mackay, which have been sighted by Queensland Country Life, QGC officers have argued the construction activity could not be the cause of any increase in wild dog attacks at the property because "dingo strikes were increasing across Queensland".
As previously reported by Queensland Country Life, QGC is constructing a 540km pipeline which will take gas from fields around Chinchilla to Gladstone as part of the company's Queensland Curtis LNG Project.
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