The Queensland Community Energy Forum in Calliope yesterday discussed how new energy development fits alongside farms, major industry and local communities.
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...
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 […]
Below are a series of keynote speaker presentations taken from the GasFields Commission’s 2021 ‘Community Leaders Council’. In this first video the Minister for Resources, the Honourable Scott Stewart MP spoke about how Queensland’s onshore gas industry is a critical contributor and creator of direct jobs for Queensland’s economy. Following the theme of the ‘2021 Community […]
The GasFields Commission Queensland (the Commission) and the Minister for Resources – Honourable Scott Stewart MP have toured parts of the Surat Basin to see first-hand how the gas industry is interacting with landholders and regional communities. The tour centred around meeting with landholders to hear and discuss their concerns and opportunities relating to the […]
The GasFields Commission Queensland have released the Shared Landscapes – Industry Snapshot Report. The report combines a range of information from a variety of data sources and aims to briefly delineate the current state of Queensland’s petroleum and gas industry (reporting on FY20 data), including development areas, groundwater management processes, compliance and economic contributions made...
Queensland-based energy company Comet Ridge Limited has been given the green light for a new Bowen Basin based project which will see more domestic gas being made available for the market. Resources Minister Scott Stewart said Queensland-based energy company Comet Ridge has been granted an Authority to Prospect (ATP) over a 338km² parcel of land located in […]