why did kingaroy shut down?, page-2

Interesting link Nic. I wonder if Mr Hinchcliffe reads HC.
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The Honourable Stirling Hinchliffe
Minister for Employment, Skills and Mining
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Fraccing with BTEX chemicals banned: Hinchliffe

Mining Minister Stirling Hinchliffe has reassured landholders that the use of BTEX chemicals in the CSG extraction process have been banned and will continue to be banned.

Responding to claims by AgForce, Mr Hinchliffe said that BTEX compounds were naturally occurring chemicals already in many coal seams but companies were not permitted to use the compounds in the extraction process.

?The fact is, BTEX compounds are already underground and are naturally occurring chemicals,? Mr Hinchliffe said.

?They?ve been there before the CSG industry started ten years ago and would still be there if the industry hadn?t started.

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Question for Mr Hinchliffe: Then I guess that means they were also there BEFORE the UCG industry started, in particular, before Cougar Energy's Kingaroy pilot burn ... when was it ... April 2010? I wonder if you'd care to explain that to Anna Bligh, Kate Jones, DERM, Dorothy Pratt, The KCCG, The South Burnett Times, The GREENS, FOE, The ABC, ....