The potential exists for land use conflict to arise between coal seam gas mining and traditional agriculture in the Surat Basin in Southern Queensland. Farming and grazing enterprises, businesses and towns in the region are largely dependent on the underground aquifers for their water supply. The process of extracting the gas from the coal seam results in the withdrawal of large quantities of water from the aquifers which underlie the basin and form part of the Great Artesian Basin water resource. Under State Government legislation the Coal Seam Gas Companies are allowed unlimited take of underground water while extraction of water for other users is controlled by the State Government. ...
Bridle, A.and Harris, C.(2010). A risk to groundwater from coal seam gas extraction in the Surat Basin. In: Proceedings of the 16thBiennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society, Bourke (Eds D.J. Eldridge and C. Waters) (Australian Rangeland Society: Perth).
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