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Following confirmation that subsidence is occurring as a result of coal seam gas (CSG) extraction, the GasFields Commission Queensland (the Commission) is proactively leading the conversation around the potential implications for Queensland’s priority agricultural areas. Following initial observations by the Office for Groundwater Impact Assessment (OGIA) around CSG-induced subsidence, landhol...

Australia’s leading science agency, CSIRO, is working with community, government and industry to improve understanding about the decommissioning processes for onshore coal seam gas (CSG) and shale gas wells. Regional community representatives in Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory have asked the CSIRO to consider a range of issues associated with decommissioning gas wells. [&...

Over the past 18 months, landholders in areas of intensively farmed land located on the Condamine River floodplain near Dalby have raised concerns with the GasFields Commission around what legislative protections are available to them should coal seam gas-induced (CSG-induced) subsidence have a financial impact on their farming business. The concerns follow research undertaken by the Office f...

GasFields Commission Queensland’s CEO Warwick Squire recently spoke with Jamie Wade from the Australian Drilling Industry Association’s Australasian Drilling magazine. Warwick discussed coexistence challenges that have arisen over the past 18 months regarding gas development activities in Queensland’s Western Downs region. Warwick went on to explain how significant landholder and community ...

GasFields Commission Queensland’s (GFCQ) Engagement Team are hitting the road next week to participate in two ‘pop-up office’ info sessions with the Department of Resources (DOR), the Department of Environment and Science (DES) and the Land Access Ombudsman (LAO). These free info sessions (to be held in Taroom [04.05.22] and Dalby [05.05.22]) will offer members of the local communi...

Western Australia’s farm and pastoral land is currently the focus of a lot of big business interests. Andrew Forrest has recently purchased another three cattle stations in the north west, and has plans to develop a renewable energy hub on one of them via his company Fortescue Future Industries. But the mining billionaire isn’t the […]

The Office of Groundwater Impact Assessment (OGIA) has released the Underground Water Impact Report (UWIR) 2021 for the Surat Cumulative Management Area (Surat CMA). A UWIR for a CMA is a statutory report that provides: an assessment of cumulative impacts from existing and proposed groundwater extraction by resource tenure holders (i.e. associated water); proactive strategies for managing [&hell...

This week the Queensland Government has clarified the strong regulatory protections in place to manage public liability risks for landholders who host onshore gas development activities along with the state’s responsibility for this legacy infrastructure. When coal seam gas (CSG) activities end, some infrastructure may be left behind. This infrastructure is referred to as ‘legacy infrastruct...

After extensive engagement with Western Downs landholders and agricultural peak bodies, the GasFields Commission Queensland (the Commission) has identified the issue of coal seam gas induced subsidence (CSG-induced subsidence) as a significant concern of landholders in areas of intensively farmed land, particularly on the Condamine Floodplain. Landholders and agricultural peak bodies have raised c...