important news article, page-3

Indeed ... a major paper ... balanced reporting ... good effort from Len to achieve that.

In my opinion it is disingenuous of the Qld Govt to in any way down play significant BTEX findings in several and widespread CSG projects.

My understanding is that the samples were from process water dams ... my further understanding is that water is both drawn from and returned to these dams in CSG well construction, including during fraccing.

Imo, it isn't at all a big leap of logic to see that if BTEX is in the process water dam it is almost certainly in groundwater in/around the CSG wells.

Fraccing is all about prising apart fissures within the coal and surrounding rock over as great a distance as possible from the well, so I would expect the same water that is in the surface process dams could be many 100's of metres from each well ... and isn't the CSG industry looking at something like 40,000 wells to support Gladstone LNG?

That being the case, imo it is likely that groundwater samples could be obtained from boreholes offset from CSG wells that contain BTEX at concentrations above that which lead to Cougar being shut down.

The way in which pollies play with and knowingly and unknowingly misrepresent facts never ceases to astound me.

Dex