The Queensland Government has charged five former executives of Linc Energy with environmental offences over the failed company’s alleged contamination of huge swathes of prime farmland in the state’s south-east.
Key points:
- Charges related to alleged contamination caused by underground coal gasification
- Four other former Linc executives also summonsed
- Company has denied the charges
The charges relate to the alleged contamination caused by Linc Energy’s underground coal gasification (UCG) operation near Chinchilla from 2007 to 2013.
Linc Energy’s founder and former chief executive Peter Bond was charged in September with three indictable offences of fa…
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