{"id":10897,"date":"2013-10-28T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T00:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=10897"},"modified":"2019-04-14T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T14:01:44","slug":"queensland-knows-qgc-fraccing-hell-story-seeking-cj-stephaniedale22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/queensland-knows-qgc-fraccing-hell-story-seeking-cj-stephaniedale22\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland knows what QGC are not, so what the fraccing hell are they? Story seeking CJ @stephaniedale22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10899\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10899\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10899\" alt=\"QGC\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-28-at-11.56.13-AM.png?resize=636%2C353\" width=\"636\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-28-at-11.56.13-AM.png?w=636&amp;ssl=1 636w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-28-at-11.56.13-AM.png?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">QGC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Commercial television networks in south-east Queensland have been screening a series of advertisements from 2011 through to last weekend, for a company announcing:<\/p>\n<p>1. the creation of employment in the region (despite not being an employment agency),<\/p>\n<p>2. a boost to the economy (despite not being the Treasury),<\/p>\n<p>3. and the injection of millions of dollars into community causes (despite not being a charity).<\/p>\n<p>The company behind the commercials is QGC.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the onscreen text at the tail-end of the ad, and nowhere to be found on the QGC home page, is the correct term for QGC\u2019s main form of business: coal seam gas or &#8216;CSG&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>After clicking on the &#8216;get the facts&#8217; tab at the top of the QGC home page, the company states clearly: \u201cQGC is developing coal seam gas in the Surat Basin of southern Queensland for domestic and export markets through its Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) Project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The big question is this: why does a company purporting to bring benefits to the region feel the need to underplay the exact nature of their business in advertising?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Contact\" href=\"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Fibs<\/a>\u00a0is calling for citizen journalists who would like to follow up this story \u2013 interested?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact us.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Below are links to further information about this story<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgc.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.qgc.com.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See 2012 and 2011 QGC ads at: <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/47344696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/47344696<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vBeJvFJihG8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vBeJvFJihG8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial television networks in south-east Queensland have been screening a series of advertisements from 2011 through to last weekend, for a company announcing: 1. the creation of employment in the region (despite not being an employment agency), 2. a boost to the economy (despite not being the Treasury), 3. and the injection of millions of [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3434,1446,1479,585,1474],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t0mw-2PL","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}