The way I read that article it appears to be jusy sloppy proof reading.It is about geothermal energy,not coal seam gas.Not that I am a defender of "The Australian".Bloody Jurassic Park with a few notable exceptions.
The "Business Spectator" article is beyond my comprehension.Maybe I'm dumb but it seems to me that a lot of MSM journalists want to have a bob each way at the moment.Seems that there is some of that unsettling thinking going on out there,better known as doubt.
On the weekend Alan Ramsay wrote an opinion piece in the SMH which really stuck it up KRudd and Co.
Good to see.Maybe Fairfax gets it a bit more than Newscorp.Link is -
http://www.smh.com.au/newsopinion/alanramsay/

The quotes in the Anna Bligh article are accurate - BUT the order of presentation and the interpretation sucks. It's a complete cock-up by the clueless reporter at The Australian.

Premier Bligh's original press release is here:
http://statements.cabinet.qld.gov.au/MMS/StatementDisplaySingle.aspx?id=...

The press release is definitely about hot rocks, but a quote from the bottom of the release has been turned into the focus of The Australian's report. What she's actually saying is that the Queensland's "cutting edge" technology can see down to deep strata, and in *other* locations, coal seam methane and other valuable deposits are at similar depths.

Hmm, "cutting edge" technology; very useful that, for mining...
;-)