How Farmers, Graziers, Miners, and Gas-Industry Personnel See Their Potential for Coexistence in Rural Queensland (original) (raw)

SPE Economics & Management, 2014

Abstract

Summary The rapid expansion of the coal-seam-gas (CSG) sector in Queensland has fueled debate on the sector's contributions to community sustainability in a rural economy dominated by the farming of food and cotton, cattle grazing, coal mining, and a modest level of tourism. For example, will the impacts of CSG extraction on surface and groundwater have sustained negative impacts on the growing of grain, and if so, what should one expect of the CSG industry today? The intensity of debate is accompanied by an array of operating conditions placed on CSG projects by the state government, extensive media coverage, and a focus on what it takes to maintain a “social license to operate.” Such a context is a challenge for resource companies committed to sustainability principles and to contributing to the social, economic, and institutional development of the communities in which they operate as well as to the conservation of biodiversity and integrated approaches to land-use planning. ...

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