Tuesday, June 26

Coal-seam gas company access revoked

THE coal-seam gas industry has been put on notice to give landholders full information in land-access negotiations, after a Supreme Court judge found a central Queensland cattle grazier was denied procedural fairness when negotiating with a resource company. 
  
In a case claimed as a precedent, judge Jean Dalton revoked gas company QGC's permission to gain access to the Eidsvold cattle property of Michael Baker, 64, finding the company did not provide adequate mapping for a pipeline easement until two days before public consultation ended.

Last February, negotiations stalled between Mr Baker and Queensland Gas Company, a subsidiary of international gas giant BG Group, over access for a 40m-wide strip dissecting Mr Baker's cattle property for a pipeline connecting the Surat Basin gasfields with a proposed CSG-to-LNG plant in Gladstone. After Mr Baker objected and an agreement was not reached, QGC applied for and won Queensland government approval.


The Australian

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