Refined understanding of groundwater in heterogeneous units through identification of vertical stratification of hydrochemistry as identified in the Walloon subgroup of Australia’s Great Artesian Basin

Owen, Daniel D.R.; Herbert, St John

doi:10.1007/s10040-019-02068-y

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“…Shell/Arrow Energy has sponsored research by GISERA and The University of Queensland's Coal Seam Gas Centre (now Centre for Natural Gas) at a few wells and bores on the vertosols of the Condamine River Alluvial land, with the aim of assessing whether the overlying aquifer is connected to the coal seams by faults and fissures (Owen & Herbert, 2020). The Office of Groundwater Impact Assessment (2016) had reviewed the information on connectivity and concluded that the level of hydraulic connectivity was low.…”

Section: Aquifer Connectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Coal Seam Gas Mining: An Assault on Farming Land, Water Resources and Property Rights

Dart¹,

Lynam²,

Pointon³

et al. 2022

Proc. R. Soc. Qld.

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Coal seam gas mining in the Surat and Bowen Basins in Queensland, Australia, has developed rapidly over the past decade. Many landholders are concerned about the effects of the i ndustry on groundwater and agricultural resources and the weakness of official oversight, recently criticised by the Queensland Audit Office. Gas and water extraction is now extending under some of the most productive agricultural lands in Australia, the Darling Downs. Uncertainties remain as to the impacts of gas activities on aquifers. The water extracted along with the gas is often salty, and the method of disposing of the salts is a contentious, unresolved issue. The power imbalance between industry and landholders and weak regulation of industry hinders efforts by the in dustry to obtain a social licence. Governments have, to a large extent, neglected the region-wide and long-term effects of the mining. Extracting gas and water from the coal seams leaves depressurised zones, which lead to subsidence of the earth layers above the seam and leakage of aquifers into the coal seams with deleterious consequences for agricultural production. The statutory 'make good' process for compensating for loss of the aquifer water does not adequately offset the negative effects on the hydrological resources and on agricultural production. The prevailing self-regulation, lack of baseline assessment and inadequate monitoring of the mining processes are abrogations of government responsibility and the precautionary principle. As the industry is still ramping up, there is precious little time to protect agricultural land and the natural systems that underpin agriculture from potentially irrevocable damage.

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Section: Aquifer Connectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Coal Seam Gas Mining: An Assault on Farming Land, Water Resources and Property Rights

Dart¹,

Lynam²,

Pointon³

et al. 2022

Proc. R. Soc. Qld.

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Section: Aquifer Connectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Proc. R. Soc. Qld.

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The Royal Society of Queensland has an honourable history as the senior scientific institution in the state. It was established in 1884, with royal patronage continuing unbroken from 1885. Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young PSM, Governor of Queensland, is the present Patron.The Society seeks to increase respect for intellectual enquiry. It encourages original research and the application of evidence-based methods to policy development and decision making. The Society provides a forum for scientists and lay people to involve themselves in the progress of science in society, with 'science' defined broadly. As a non-partisan, secular, learned group, the Society is committed to the Enlightenment tradition of curiosity-led, knowledge-based enquiry that arguably was born with the Royal Society in London in 1660.The centrepiece activity of the Society is the production of the annual scientific journal Proceedings of The Royal Society of Queensland, supplemented from time to time with Special Issues on specific themes. Proceedings of The Royal Society of QueenslandThe Proceedings publishes original scholarship and investigation in natural history relevant to Queensland, including the biodiversity, conservation, use, management and economic significance of natural resources. All aspects of the natural sciences, including astronomy, geology, hydrology, botany and zoology, biomedicine, introduced species and dynamic land and water processes, are considered. The journal will also publish papers on general science, including science-related history, policy, education and philosophy. Papers written from within the social sciences, such as sociology, culture and heritage that deal with the use or management of a natural resource, are welcome.

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Groundwater, co-produced water, and biogenic coalbed gas

Flores,

Moore

2024

Coal and Coalbed Gas

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Refined understanding of groundwater in heterogeneous units through identification of vertical stratification of hydrochemistry as identified in the Walloon subgroup of Australia’s Great Artesian Basin

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

Coal Seam Gas Mining: An Assault on Farming Land, Water Resources and Property Rights

Coal Seam Gas Mining: An Assault on Farming Land, Water Resources and Property Rights

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Groundwater, co-produced water, and biogenic coalbed gas

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