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.
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.
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.
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.
BSA has recently submitted our reccommendations on the Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Bill 2014.
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.
BSA is extremely disappointed by the Northern Star report “How Queensland farmers reached harmony with gas companies” (8/5) which gives the false impression that the coal seam gas industry is problem-free in Queensland.
BSA is calling on the Government to reject QGC’s application to amend an existing Environmental Authority for its Wandoan Project which would allow it to start extensively fracking to extract ‘tight gas’ in Queensland.
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.
Letter to the Editor by Ian Hansen: With regard to the asbestos being found in drilling, I find it very disappointing and irresponsible that Mayor Ray Brown finds a need to place the water drilling industry under the same umbrella as the CSG drilling industry…