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Residents meet over water contamination fears
By Sam Burgess

Posted March 18, 2010 13:38:00
Map: Kingaroy 4610 The Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) will tonight address South Burnett residents worried about an underground coal gasification (UCG) project near Kingaroy.

Cougar Energy has begun producing gas from its coal seam this week.

The Kingaroy Concerned Residents group says the company's proposed 400 megawatt power station could contaminate local water supplies.

Group spokesman Gary Tessmann says the QCC will present a report by the United States Environmental Protection Agency which discovered water contamination at an American UCG plant.

"They've certainly had problems with this process and I don't think they actually do it any more," he said.

"This is something that we actually want to get people aware of, actually there is problems with underground water and this is where this group is mainly concerned about."