New report highlights lessons from Queensland’s CSG experience to inform the future of resources and energy development

Queensland’s experience with coal seam gas (CSG) development holds vital lessons for Australia’s rapidly expanding renewable energy and resources landscape, according to new research from The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Gas & Energy Transition Research Centre.

The report, commissioned by Coexistence Queensland, draws on more than a decade of research, in-depth interviews, online engagement, to capture what drives social licence and good practice for industries working in regional communities.

The research provides practical insights into how industries can better work with communities as energy development accelerates around either core themes:

• community engagement
• balancing land uses
• environmental management
• economic diversification and local investment
• delivering community benefits
• workforce development
• stakeholder partnerships and collaboration, and
• infrastructure and regional growth.

The full report Leveraging the Lessons from Queensland’s Coal Seam Gas Development is available here.