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Cougar, Qld Government reach agreement
By Fidelis Rego

Posted September 6, 2010 13:51:00


Cougar Energy says it has reached an agreement with the Queensland Government over the company's underground coal gasification (UCG) project in the South Burnett region of south-east Queensland.

The company's UCG plant at Kingaroy remains shut despite government tests clearing the project of contaminating bores.

The State Government says Cougar also has not provided all the information required for an environmental assessment of the project.

However, Cougar Energy managing director Dr Len Walker says talks held with government officials on Friday have resolved the issue.

"We had proposed to install four new monitoring bores within the pilot plant area and we will be going ahead with those as quickly as we can," he said.

"The department was requesting more information in relation to the installation of the new bores and in particular measures we'd taken of mitigating any risk of the same problem occurring as it occurred with our first production wells."