The Coal Seam Gas industry is predicted to extract up to 350,000 ML of groundwater per year – that’s equal to about two-thirds of Sydney Harbour or the size of Somerset Dam. And yet, there are no laws preventing an unlimited take of this water. All other water users are regulated heavily in terms of their water-take but CSG companies are exempt.
The process of removing gas will involve the drilling of up to 40,000 wells in Qld alone. The risk of Interconnection of underground water aquifers is very real. Farmers, graziers, households and many regional towns rely on underground water. If underground water aquifiers interconnect, a highly salty poor quality water supply could contaminate the nice clean high quality water supplies.
Coexistence criteria should never be a “one-size-fits” all approach. Every land use and farming enterprise is unique and every situation will require specific consideration e.g. Intensive livestock or organic farming cannot be treated just like extensive grazing and conventional farming.
On the plains west of Dalby on Queensland’s Darling Downs, fortunes have been made by farmers who have embraced the Sunshine State’s spreading gas boom.
The long-awaited QGC Kenya water treatment plant, which officially opened on Wednesday, is not the saviour to agricultural and community water security that the government and industry are claiming it to be, according to BSA.
The long-awaited QGC Kenya water treatment plant, which officially opened on Wednesday, is not the saviour to agricultural and community water security that the government and industry are claiming it to be, according to BSA.
The long-awaited QGC Kenya water treatment plant, which officially opened on Wednesday, is not the saviour to agricultural and community water security that the government and industry are claiming it to be, according to BSA.
The long-awaited QGC Kenya water treatment plant, which officially opened on Wednesday, is not the saviour to agricultural and community water security that the government and industry are claiming it to be, according to BSA.
Landholders concerned about coal seam gas development were told to keep in close contact with the CSG Compliance Unit and DEHP to ensure their voice continues to be heard, at the BSA meeting in Dalby on Wednesday afternoon.
The long-awaited QGC Kenya water treatment plant, which officially opened on Wednesday, is not the saviour to agricultural and community water security that the government and industry are claiming it to be, according to BSA.