Exclusive: Origin Energy says it has monitored the bubbling water since 2015, along with other seep locations
commissioned by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science said gas escape may have been “enhanced” by CSG production about 1km away.
“New areas of the river are now bubbling like a boiling broth, much closer to the Chinchilla Weir than impacted areas of the river first identified about a decade ago,” Pratzky said. “But this will be extremely difficult to monitor and enforce when gas activity is increasing the rate of methane coming out of the ground in areas beyond the immediate gasfield.”APLNG says on its website that it has successfully mitigated the gas seeps by building production wells to extract shallow gas migrating toward natural geological faults.
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