Farmers wonder if LNG is worth its salt

Concerns have been raised over the great coal-seam gas rush, writes Clancy Yeates. The Darling Downs area in Queensland is not exactly a hot-bed of anti-business radicalism. The prime agricultural region - which has also found itself in the midst of the energy boom - held the seat of the former premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen, while the office of the Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce is in nearby St George.

Qld Gas Adds Pipeline To Defence

QUEENSLAND Gas Co has taken another step to boost its value in the face of a $606 million bid from Santos. A day after QGC announced an increase in gas contracts, it told the market it was applying for permission to build a 152-kilometre gas pipeline to the Wallumbilla hub in south-east Queensland.

Qld Cashing In On Coal Seam Gas

WHEN AGL announced in mid- August that it was freezing work on the Australian onshore component of the much-touted $7 billion Papua New Guinea gas pipeline project, Queensland Gas's Richard Cottee must have started worrying about the implications for the independence of his company.

Brent Tate Brisbane Broncos

Nickname: "Tatey" Position: Centre Born: Roma, QLD; March 3, 1982 Height: 186cm Weight: 89kg

Qld Grass-root Policy Rules Out Goss

THE succession of the Roma grazier, Mr Russell Cooper, to the Premiership of Queensland has forced the continuation of the focus on Queensland politics but dramatically altered the likely outcome of the "knock-'em-down drag-'em-out" political dogfight in that State. The vitrioli

Five Killed In Qld Light Plane Crash

BRISBANE: Five men killed in a light plane crash in western Queensland had been returning home from cattle sales in Longreach when the aircraft went down near Roma, police said last night. All of the men are believed to be from properties in and around the Roma district, about 400 kilomet