Thursday, May 31

CSG expert challenges company's gas claim

An environmental engineer has questioned Origin Energy's assertion that gas bubbling in a Queensland river is a naturally occurring phenomenon.

A video by anti-coal seam gas group (CSG) Lock the Gates shows gas bubbling to the surface of the Condamine River near Chinchilla.

Origin Energy, which owns a number of test wells near the site, says it is a natural phenomenon caused by a shallow coal seam.

But CSG expert Dr Gavin Mudd from Monash University says "it beggars belief that there could be no contribution by industry".

Dr Mudd says there is no evidence to support Origin's claim and the case needs further investigation.

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