Community members from across the Gladstone region are invited to attend a free energy information forum in Calliope on Wednesday 4 November.
Over the past few months, I've been privileged to spend time with the Coexistence Queensland and Land Access Ombudsman teams in communities across Queensland, from Gladstone and Rockhampton to Kingaroy, Inglewood, Surat, Condamine and Cloncurry.
Across rural and regional Australia, some local residents living near renewable energy projects have expressed concerns about the possible impact on their public liability insurance coverage of this new infrastructure. To reduce uncertainty and establish a shared understanding of this situation, the organisations endorsing this joint statement are committed to pursuing within their respective sph...
Residents from across the Maranoa and Western Downs came together this week to learn about potential oil and gas development in the Taroom Trough and what it could mean locally. More than 160 people attended the Taroom Trough Information Forums in Surat on 2 September and Condamine on 3 September.
Recently much has been reported in the media on the Morrison Government’s “Gas-Fired Recovery” Plan, the critical role Queensland will continue to play in supplying additional gas volumes into the domestic market, plans to unlock key gas basins in the North Bowen and Galilee basins, and the expansion of the Gas Supply Hub (GSH) in Wallumbilla, […]
The GasFields Commission have delivered a Navigating Land Access Webinar the first in a series of webinars in collaboration with the Department of Resources (DOR), the Department of Environment and Science (DES), the Land Access Ombudsman (LAO) and the Land Court of Queensland. The first webinar in the series – Navigating Land Access – brought together […]
The GasFields Commission Queensland (GFCQ or the Commission) has established a Surat Stakeholder Advisory Group (SSAG or the Group) to act as a primary regional mechanism for the Commission to consult with and inform GFCQ stakeholders and the Surat regional communities on its operations and related sustainable coexistence matters. The SSAG’s Charter states: “The role of the […]
A piece of Queensland gas infrastructure that laid the foundation for thousands of jobs in Queensland’s gas and manufacturing industries – the Queensland gas pipeline – turned 30 on Saturday 25 July. Mines Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said thousands of jobs, hundreds of petajoules of gas and multi-billions in economic stimulus had flowed from the […]
The GasFields Commission’s Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Jane Walker recently presented as part of an “Afternoon Session with AgForce CQ” webinar. Jane joined Noel Brinsmead (AgForce Queensland mapping guru with 40 years’ experience as a cartographer and GIS analyst) to educate farmers on how to accurately map their properties. The session primarily focused on the developing […]
A working group convened by the GasFields Commission which includes key insurance, agriculture and gas industry peak bodies and government regulators met on 17 June 2020 to further progress resolution of the landholder public liability insurance issue. The working group includes senior representatives from the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), AgForce Queensland, Cotton Australia, Queensl...
GasFields Commission Queensland (the Commission) has today convened a working group to discuss landholder liability insurance with key insurance, agriculture and gas industry peak bodies and government regulators, including the Insurance Council of Australia, AgForce Queensland, Cotton Australia, Queensland Farmers Federation, Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association, Qu...
The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Centre for Natural Gas has released the findings from an intensive 6-month study testing Queensland’s experience against the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) “Golden Rules of Gas ¹” (the Golden Rules) – a set of principles developed by the IEA to guide what it takes for natural gas developments globally to gain better social acceptance. The...