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07 Nov 06:00am

Filed under: Coal Seam Gas, Environment, Mining, Queensland, Roma

Roma, some 600km west of Brisbane, used to be a country town where you could drive your car onto the airport tarmac to pick up friends arriving on the few flights servicing the place.

Decrepit Roma, with no coal seam gas mining. Pic: Universal Pictorial Press

It had a small motel many years ago when I lived there but most travellers stayed at pubs with names such as The School of Arts.

The population back all those decades ago when sheep and cattle ruled was nudging 5000. Compared to some of the neighbouring towns such as Injune and Wallumbilla, it was a big place.

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Roo says:

08:40am | 14/11/11

No, He didn’t. He sold to a coal company because there wasn’t much choice - if he stayed he’d have been surrounded by a coal mine. No-one in their right mind would buy in a csg field - no meaningful compensation, ruined equity and 24/7 noise & disruption when they… Read more »
Annie says:

11:09pm | 13/11/11

@bananabender Have you been bending a few too many bananas? How does that even make any sense? Do you have any links or information to support this statement? Perhaps you need to do some investigation.They are mostly the same companies, they have conventional and ‘unconventional’ gas. Santos, Shell, Billiton, British… Read more »

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