Hope you enjoyed the footy, Rocks. If the Wallabies lost, I would have blamed that on CXY too.
More from our "extremely wild" Damo:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/new-scare-for-farms-bore-water/story-e6freoof-1226144924210
A KINGAROY farmer neighbouring an abandoned gas project has had his water contaminated for a second time.
Damien O'Sullivan was told by the Department of Environment and Resource Management this week that a bore on his property showed traces of the naturally occurring formaldehyde and the toxic thiocyanate which has been linked to underground coal gasification in the US.
The Government said that, while it is possible that the thiocyanate is a by-product of UCG activities, it is not used in the UCG process.
Mr O'Sullivan was embroiled in the chemical scare at Kingaroy in last year when the bores and his cattle were found to have traces of the potentially cancer-causing BTEX chemicals. His bores have been monitored ever since.
The Government announced the latest detection in a press release which said the chemicals were not connected to coal seam gas but didn't mention the underground coal gasification which operated about 500m from Mr O'Sullivan's bore under a government-approved trial.
"It could also come from products used in UCG," Mr O'Sullivan said.
"I'm unaware of anywhere else they could come from. DERM has suggested that it could have come from agricultural chemicals but none have been used within 200 metres of that bore.
"I'm sick and tired of the whole thing. We have had four years of total uncertainty. We have got to the stage where we don't trust anyone.
"We have invested our life savings in this property. Who is going to buy it with all this uncertainty? I was extremely wild when they (DERM) told me."
He said his daughter also drank from the bore recently and he was now fencing it off.
Various websites state that thiocyanate is one of the major constituents of waste water from the gasification of coal where various by-products are formed during the production of gas for fuel, coke and substances for chemical industries.
Environment Minister Vicky Darling said the Government was taking the incident very seriously and hoped to determine the source as soon as possible.
"DERM officers will be onsite to carry out further testing at the property this week," she said.
"Samples will then be analysed as a matter of priority."
A Cougar Energy spokesman said thiocyanate had previously been detected on a neighbouring property before the company had even started its UCG operations.
"Thiocyanate was found during our tests of bores on the neighbouring farming property in 2008 and 2009 when Cougar was establishing its base-line levels prior to starting any operations at the site," the spokesman said.
"These base levels were needed so that we could identify any change to levels when the Kingaroy operations eventually got under way."
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