Chapter 21
‘Are you sure you’ll be all right?’ Clare asked for the tenth time.
‘Positive,’ snapped Mick. ‘Now you get along to that meeting and see if somebody can’t talk some sense into you.’
Clare sighed. Her grandfather had been impossible today. They’d argued. She’d been trying to point out the advantages of at least allowing Pyramid Energy to drill some test wells at Currawong. Clare had done her research, even visiting Pyramid’s office in Dalby to clarify a few points. Under the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 and the Petroleum Act 1923, the miners held all the cards. Providing they produced a current authority to prospect and had issued a notice of entry, Pyramid had every legal right to enter Currawong. But what Grandad didn’t seem to understand was that they
