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More than 20 tonnes of watermelon are smashed all in the name of fun and games as part of the Chinchilla Melon Festival on Queensland's Western Downs this weekend.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, carnivals-and-festivals, events, community-and-society, community-and-multicultural-festivals, chinchilla-4413
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government declares an expanded "investigation zone" after the discovery of flammable levels of hydrogen in soil on the western Darling Downs.
Topics: oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, environment, states-and-territories, hopeland-4413, chinchilla-4413, qld
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| UpdatedGas-contaminated soil has been detected 25 kilometres further south of an existing exclusion zone around a controversial Western Downs gas project, Queensland's Environment Department says.
Topics: land-pollution, activism-and-lobbying, oil-and-gas, public-sector, chinchilla-4413, qld, australia, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedAn Environment Department investigation confirms the contamination near Linc Energy's underground coal gasification plant is much more widespread than previously thought.
Topics: oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, environment, states-and-territories, hopeland-4413, chinchilla-4413, qld
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| UpdatedHeatwave conditions are scorching southern Queensland for a second time in just over a week, with paramedics preparing for another spike in heat-related cases.
Topics: weather, emergency-planning, phenomena, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, ipswich-4305, southport-4215, chinchilla-4413, maroochydore-4558, toowoomba-4350, bedourie-4829, birdsville-4482
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| UpdatedAmid a rash of unrelated shootings in Queensland in the past 24 hours, a man in his 20s suffers gunshot wounds to his chest and arm at Chinchilla on the Darling Downs.
Topics: police, chinchilla-4413, tingalpa-4173, warwick-4370
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government warns taxpayers could be left with the clean-up bill at a failed UCG site on the Western Downs if liquidators are successful in a court challenge.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, oil-and-gas, government-and-politics, regulation, chinchilla-4413, qld, australia, bundaberg-4670, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government charges 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.
Topics: industry, environment, courts-and-trials, oil-and-gas, company-news, law-crime-and-justice, activism-and-lobbying, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350, bundaberg-4670, qld
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| UpdatedQueensland coal seam gas operator QGC is issued an Environmental Protection Order (EPO) over allegations noise levels are too high at a Western Downs project.
Topics: oil-and-gas, mining-environmental-issues, environmental-health, state-parliament, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350
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A group representing midwives in Australia has raised concerns about an increase in women birthing at home without any medical assistance.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, medical-ethics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, chinchilla-4413
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Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, babies---newborns, family, chinchilla-4413
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Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, babies---newborns, babies, chinchilla-4413
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Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, babies---newborns, family, chinchilla-4413
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government secures $3.6 million from failed resources company Linc Energy to begin rehabilitation efforts on the western Darling Downs.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health, health, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, law-crime-and-justice, chinchilla-4413, qld
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The case against failed resources firm Linc Energy is in doubt after the liquidators indicate they will seek to not answer environmental harm charges.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, oil-and-gas, company-news, courts-and-trials, laws, environment, environmental-management, environmental-impact, mining-environmental-issues, environmental-health, environmental-policy, chinchilla-4413, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedJapan offers a new premium market for Australian watermelons.
Topics: agribusiness, trade, chinchilla-4413
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Topics: agribusiness, trade, chinchilla-4413
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| UpdatedA Queensland farmer whose property adjoins the failed Linc Energy UCG project is hoping the Supreme Court will force the company liquidator to hand over its insurance policy so she can determine whether it is financially viable to launch a class action for damages.
Topics: coal, oil-and-gas, state-parliament, courts-and-trials, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350
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Liquidator PPB Advisory is finalising a contract to sell most of the assets of troubled oil and gas company Linc Energy, but is not revealing the buyer.
Topics: company-news, oil-and-gas, mining-environmental-issues, coal, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedLinc Energy's underground coal gasification plant in Queensland was built using cheap, unsafe and illegal equipment, a former engineer at the company claims.
Topics: mining-industry, oil-and-gas, activism-and-lobbying, environment, mining-environmental-issues, business-economics-and-finance, mining-rural, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350, australia
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A southern Queensland mayor says most of his community is pleased Linc Energy will no longer be operating near Chinchilla.
Topics: oil-and-gas, environmental-management, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Environment Department has issued an Environmental Protection Order (EPO) to the former chief executive of Linc Energy, Peter Bond, ordering him to clean up the site of the company's controversial underground gas project near Chinchilla.
Topics: environmental-policy, environment, environmental-management, mining-environmental-issues, chinchilla-4413, qld, australia
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The Queensland Government vows to press ahead with the criminal prosecution of oil and gas firm Linc Energy for the alleged contamination of farmland in the state's south-east, despite the company being placed into liquidation.
Topics: government-and-politics, environmental-impact, environment, business-economics-and-finance, chinchilla-4413, qld
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| UpdatedTroubled oil and gas company Linc Energy is to be wound up after creditors unanimously voted to place it into liquidation.
Topics: oil-and-gas, mining-rural, government-and-politics, courts-and-trials, company-news, mining-industry, environment, environmental-impact, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedA carnival worker who was thought to have been electrocuted on a dodgem cars ride is likely to have died from a medical condition, police say.
Topics: workplace, death, chinchilla-4413