{"id":306966,"date":"2021-10-07T13:32:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T03:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=306966"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:11:18","slug":"12m-spent-chasing-linc-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2021\/10\/07\/12m-spent-chasing-linc-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"$12m Spent Chasing Linc Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 7, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The State Government spent more than $12 million in legal costs pursuing Linc Energy over its failed underground coal gasification project near Chinchilla.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Environment and Science incurred $11.1 million in legal\u00a0expenses in relation to its prosecution of\u00a0Linc.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2018, Linc was fined $4.5 million for causing serious environmental harm at its UCG site after being found guilty in the Brisbane District Court.<\/p>\n<p>Administrators were appointed to the company in April 2016,\u00a0two years after the charges were laid. Linc was placed into liquidation a month later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The prosecution of four former Linc Energy executives and related civil proceedings added another\u00a0$920,000 to the State Government&#8217;s legal bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Crown dropped charges against the former executives in August this year.<\/p>\n<p>The men had been committed to stand trial in March last year, and the\u00a0matter was due to be heard in the Brisbane District Court.<\/p>\n<p>However, Crown Prosecutor Ralph Devlin QC told the court on August 17 that the Crown would not be proceeding with the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>The legal costs were disclosed in answers to a recent Question on Notice from Member for Burleigh Michael Hart (LNP) to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, and from a question from the Health and Environment Committee in July to Science Minister Meaghan Scanlon.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Palaszczuk\u00a0said that as the prosecution of the former executives was now finalised, no additional external legal costs were expected to be incurred.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2021\/08\/17\/crown-drops-ucg-charges\/\">Crown Drops UCG Charges<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/03\/06\/linc-executives-to-face-trial\/\">Linc Executives Face Trial<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/11\/14\/five-linc-executives-face-charges\/\"><strong>Five Linc Executives Face Charges<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/11\/ucg-banned-in-queensland-2\/\">UCG Banned In Queensland<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/05\/linc-to-be-liquidated\/\">Linc To Be Liquidated<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/04\/lnp-calls-for-ucg-transparency\/\">LNP Calls For UCG \u2018Transparency\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/04\/ucg-to-be-banned-in-queensland\/\">UCG To Be Banned In Queensland<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/04\/linc-appoints-administrators\/\">Linc Appoints Administrators<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/04\/linc-landholders-plan-group-action\/\">Linc Landholders Plan Group Action<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/03\/gasfields-review-extends-to-coal\/\">Gasfields Review Extends To Coal<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/03\/linc-to-face-trial\/\">Linc To Face Trial<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/02\/lock-the-gate-calls-for-urgent-ban-on-ucg\/\">Lock The Gate Calls For Urgent Ban On UCG<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2015\/08\/linc-to-face-class-action\/\">Linc To Face Class Action<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2015\/08\/calls-to-ban-ucg\/\">Calls To Ban UCG<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2015\/03\/workers-exposed-to-syngas-claim\/\">Workers Exposed To Syngas: Claim<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/04\/ucg-company-charged\/\">UCG Company Charged<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Government spent more than $12 million in legal costs pursuing Linc Energy over its failed underground coal gasification project near Chinchilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":142113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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