BSA Annual General Meeting
Help us keep up the fight for a better future for our farms, families and communities.
BSA stands up for landholder rights at hearing
BSA committee members Neil Cameron and Peter Shannon represented BSA at the Parliamentary Committee hearing in Toowoomba (on 19th August) on the increasingly notorious Mineral & Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Bill.
Farmer urges landholders to object to State Govt bill
Macalister farmer David Hamilton is speaking out against a new State Government bill he calls “unfair and unreasonable”.
Common Provisions Bill Public Hearing
BSA is urging all landholders to attend next week’s public hearing on the State Government’s Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Bill 2014. This potentially could be one of the most significant changes to the resource legistlation since the change to the land access code.
Worry spills from wells of prosperity
Cattle farmer Katie Lloyd is worried. The mother of two young boys has 21 gas wells on her Chinchilla district property and this one has leaked since it was installed about six years ago.
Farmers fear gas plants will blight land
When Scott and Kate Lloyd took over the family property in Chinchilla in 2009, it coincided with the “nightmare” growth of exploration and development of coal seam gas in the region.
QGC moves to strip away farmers’ strategic cropping land status
BSA is alarmed to hear that landowners in the Wandoan region, who thought their properties were protected as “Strategic Cropping Land”, have been served with notices from coal seam gas (CSG) company QGC proposing to strip them of their strategic cropping land status.
Submission for the Mineral and Energy Resources Bill 2014
BSA has recently submitted our reccommendations on the Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Bill 2014.
CSG and the danger of open exploration holes
If the water is removed from the coal seams as planned over such a vast area of Queensland we are going to see uncontrollable volumes of gas leak from open mineral exploration test holes and we will also witness the depletion of many of our aquifers via these holes.
Why Qlders need to review Resource Act changes by June 30
Landholders should review, consider and make appropriate submissions to the Agriculture, Resources and Environment Committee by 30 June 2014 and otherwise voice their concerns on the Bill by that date. If they do not we fear the consequences now and in the land term for many could be dire.