THEY knew there was a problem, but Linc Energy just “kept going” with devastating coal gasification activity.
That is what a prosecutor has claimed as Linc faces five counts of causing serious environmental damage in Chinchilla.
The energy company, in liquidation, is not in Brisbane District Court to defend the charges.
Jurors on Tuesday heard allegations of Linc’s reckless disregard for the environment.
Prosecutor Ralph Devlin alleged Linc had injected air underground “in a way that created and enhanced fractures in surrounding” land.
He said Linc used its underground wells in a way that made them fail.
“Those well failures created underground pathways” for toxins to escape far way, to places Linc coul…
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