QLD:WA company plans to trial UCG
A West Australian mining company is planning to trial underground coal gasification (UCG) in the same southern Queensland town where another UCG project was forced to shut down because of a water contamination scare.
A West Australian mining company is planning to trial underground coal gasification (UCG) in the same southern Queensland town where another UCG project was forced to shut down because of a water contamination scare.
Cougar Energy 's UCG pilot plant at Kingaroy, northwest of Brisbane, was closed down earlier this month after traces of the cancer-causing chemicals benzene and toluene were found in bores near the plant.
AAP
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