'The living heart of Australia': fracking plans threaten fragile channel country

The locals are divided as energy companies eye the gas resources buried kilometres below the sensitive Queensland floodplain regionRead more of our Modern Outback series hereSign up for email notifications from our Modern Outback seriesDude Kidd's ute barrels between a fence line and a sand dune as eagles circle over some unidentified quarry under the magic light of an outback sunset."Did you see anything on the ground ... a carcass?" asks Kidd. We reply in the negative. "They'll be after grasshoppers." Continue reading...