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The Office of Groundwater Impact Assessment (OGIA) has released their consultation draft of the Underground Water Impact Report (UWIR) 2021 for the Surat Cumulative Management Area (Surat CMA). The 2021 UWIR, for the first time, integrates cumulative impacts from coal mining and provides a comprehensive assessment of coal seam gas (CSG)-induced subsidence – along with […]

The GasFields Commission Queensland (the Commission) has delivered seven recommendations to the State Government as part of its “Review of the Regional Planning Interests Act 2014 Assessment Process Report” (the report) that was released today. The report comes in response to the Queensland Audit Office’s performance audit report “Managing coal seam gas activities” which recommended th...

The Geological and Bioregional Assessments (GBA) Explorer is an interactive visualisation of the cause-and-effect relationships between unconventional gas resource developments and environment and water-related matters within the Beetaloo and Cooper GBA regions. The graphical presentation provides immediate access to node descriptions, link evaluations and an overall assessment summary. Users ca...

Farmers from Kupunn in the Western Downs have raised concerns of liability insurance, potential subsidence, and more with the GasFields Commission Queensland after discovering deviated gas wells underneath their properties, potentially causing environmental damage. Outraged property owners across the Kupunn flood plains west of Dalby hit out at Arrow Energy after they weren’t notified about Daa...

Recently a number of Dalby district landholders raised concerns to the GasFields Commission (the Commission) and the State Government about the processes and potential impacts of directional drilling activities under landholders’ properties. The Commission proactively raised these concerns with agricultural and resource sector peak bodies and the Department of Resources. In response to these con...

The Department of Environment and Science (DES) has published two new online reports outlining potential long-term management solutions for brine generated from coal seam gas (CSG) activities. A DES information sheet was also released, documenting the background and context of the investigation into the potential long-term CSG brine management solutions. Groundwater extracted as part of the CSG...

The University of Queensland Centre for Natural Gas has launched a new web resource all about the Great Artesian Basin (GAB). The GAB is one of the most iconic and largest groundwater basins in the world. It has been a source of life for Australia’s First Peoples for millennia and vital to the development of regional Australia through […]

The University of Queensland Centre for Natural Gas (UQCNG) has published their annual town analytics. Each year UQCNG conducts in depth research of data and perceptions for key town communities which have hosted coal seam gas development. Research has been conducted annually since 2015 and the information collected has been analysed and then reported each year. The […]

Did you know 1 in 2 Queenslanders will experience a mental illness at some point in their lives and tragically for 804 Queenslanders, their lives ended in suicide in 2017. Each and every suicide is a tragedy. Research also indicates Queensland has the second highest rate of suicide in Australia leaving devastated families, friends, colleagues […]