A methane gas fire burning in a grazing paddock in Southern Queensland has added further fuel to rural concerns about the safety of the rapidly expanding Coal Seam Gas industry.
The Basin Sustainability Alliance, a group that represents landholders and rural communities, says a grass fire sparked by gas leaking from a hole in the ground at Daandine near Dalby has reinforced fears that coal seam gas depressurisation is causing unexpected and dangerous impacts.
The leak, discovered on the weekend, follows the recent sighting of gas bubbling from a leak in the Condamine River in the same region.
The Basin Sustainability Alliance, said it was eagerly awaiting the results of a Government investigation into the latest gas leak.
BSA Committee Member Wayne Newton, who was one of the first landholders on the scene of the Daandine incident, said he’d never seen anything like it.
“Someone had heard a hissing noise, seen the ground bubbling and emitting a blue light, by the time I got there, it was alight and the grass had caught on fire,” he said.
“We are seriously concerned that the CSG companies and the Government are not looking closely enough at what is causing the gas to find pathways and escape to the surface.”
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