Arrow adds to Qld cancer scare

QUEENSLAND'S $50 billion coal seam gas industry has been rocked for the second time in three weeks after cancer-causing chemicals were detected at Arrow Energy's coal seam gas wells.
Arrow Energy, a venture between Shell and PetroChina, said yesterday it had detected traces of the cancer-causing agent benzene in samples taken from its Moranbah coal seam gas project in the Bowen Basin in central Queensland, The Australian Financial Review reports.
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Source: Queensland Country Life