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 […]
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. […]
BSA’s Letter to the Editor – Qld Country Life.
The Basin Sustainability Alliance {BSA} commends Bruce Currie’s Ed Op piece (QCL 6 Oct) and supports the basic principles he is fighting for. For too long – Galilee Basin landholders have lived with the debilitating uncertainty of the potential impacts of proposed coal mines on their stock & domestic water supplies. […]
BSA Chairman Lee McNicholl says,“This is a must read for anyone truly concerned about the sustainable management of the GAB”. Download the Submission document below:
The Basin Sustainability Alliance’s Submission on the Draft Great Artesian Basin & Other Regional Aquifers (GABORA) Water Plan and the Draft GABORA Water Management Protocol – PDF
Letter from George Houen regarding the EPOLA submissions
Read George Houen’s Letter to the Editor regarding the Governments mine dewatering amendments here>
Letter to the Editor from George Houen
BSA has recently submitted our reccommendations on the Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Bill 2014.