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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...

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...

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...

The GasFields Commission Queensland (the Commission) is today calling on all stakeholders involved to urgently act to resolve ongoing coexistence issues emanating from Arrow Energy’s (Arrow) Surat Gas Project development activities, near Dalby on the Western Downs. The Commission acknowledges ongoing community concerns regarding a number of Arrow’s recent development activities on intensively ...

Both the Queensland Government and Australian Government have each committed to contributing $5 million towards a Bowen Basin pipeline study, with a combined total investment of $10 million which will occur in multiple phases. The first phase was a concept study of key initiatives that merit further detailed investigation. The concept study has investigated the potential […]

The Queensland Government has released the 2021 Queensland Exploration Program (QEP). The QEP provides a release schedule of exploration opportunities for greenhouse gas storage areas and petroleum and gas across Queensland. It outlines the tender process (tenders open in December 2021) and provides details on the location of each exploration tender area and the timing of each […]