Following the state's promotion of Queensland’s Taroom Trough as Australia’s first major new oil province in 50 years, Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Mornings speaks with Dayne Pratzky - the anti-fracking activist known as "Frackman" - about the severe environmental hazards to local water supplies and prime agricultural land.

Pratzky warns that the multi-billion-dollar project mirrors economically disastrous shale oil booms in the United States and urges the nation to invest in renewable transport rather than risky, expensive fossil fuel extraction.