The Basin Sustainability Alliance { BSA} represents landholder, community groups and individuals who are worried about the long term consequences of rapid and unrestrained development of the coal seam gas industry across Queensland, based on an unsustainable policy of unlimited water take from the Great Artesian Basin. Our concerns extend to other forms of gas and resource extraction where […]
The BSA submitted to the State Development, Natural Resources & Agriculture Industry Development Com. re the proposed MWOLA Bill. BSA was then asked to present before a committee hearing , attempting to prevent a reduction in landholder’s existing rights thereby favouring the resource sector. Our letter published in the QCL { 22/3/2018} details some of our concerns.
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The BSA’s submission is No 20 of 30 submissions on the below link to the Senate Inquiry.
This is the link to all the submissions published by the committee:
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/…/Submissions
Given the impacts of the Coal Seam Gas Industry on the groundwater resources of the Surat Basin and the Great Artesian basin, the BSA is grateful for the opportunity to lodge a […]
Dear Editor –
Changing just two words in the Mineral and Resources Common Provisions Act, as is proposed in the amendment Bill currently before Parliament, would rob many land owners or occupiers of their right to compensation, especially in the coal seam gas areas.
Compensatable effects are currently those from resource activities occurring within the tenement and relating to the claimant’s […]
The Basin Sustainability Alliance’s AGM scheduled for Oct 13 from 2-5PM at the Chinchilla RSL has an impressive list of speakers that can shed light on a vital consideration for landholders ;
Can the 2017 Great Artesian Basin and Other Related Aquifers {GABORA} Plan ensure sustainability while the mining sector has unlimited water take?
The new plan came into effect on […]
Letter to Editor re Rhys Turner:
The Australian Petroleum Production and Production Assoc.’s Rhys Turner’s attack on those diabolical green activists {QCL Aug 24} is long on industry rhetoric but very short on a truthful analysis of the unsustainable legacy that the “unconventional “ and coal seam gas industries are leaving on the aquifers of the Great Artesian Basin {GAB}.
Mr. […]
The BSA endorses the Land Court’s landmark heroic decision and calls upon the State Govt. to do likewise and support the legal principle of “inter-generational equity “ thereby ensuring continuous sustainable agriculture rather than destructive short term coal mining.” BSA Chairman Lee McNicholl
To read the full article visit http://www.edoqld.org.au/news/supreme-court-backs-farmers-again-in-new-acland-freeze-refusal/
By James Nason, 22 May 2017
The Australian Lot Feeders Association, the peak Industry council representing Australian lot feeders, says access to safe, reliable and sufficient groundwater is crucial for future investment in the Queensland feedlot sector.
Qld plan must give feedlots better access to groundwater: ALFA
By James Nason, 22 May 2017
As a premier grain and cattle growing region with access to groundwater from the Great Artesian basin below, it is easy to see how an area of inland Queensland has developed to become the epicentre of Australia’s lot feeding industry. However, it is hard to see how the economically important industry can expand much […]