Landholders ASCERT

23/02/2022

OUR Farmers are the only ones in this equation required to meet the legislative requirements, Gov sleeps at the wheel, Arrow keeps on drilling...

23/02/2022

03/11/2021

31/03/2021

10/03/2021

Come to this conference this Saturday, you don't have to be a member to attend.

2021 Property Rights Australia Conference

📌 Compulsory acquisition of property occurs with railway & highway realignments, powerlines, pipelines and defence needs. Peter Boyce, Principal at Butler McDermott Lawyers, works often in this space representing landowners, he will take us through the shortcomings of the current system and how it can be improved.

📌 With coal seam gas development there is still little protection from impacts for people on neighbouring properties. Raquel Bond, a director of P&E Law and based at Chinchilla will cover this area.

📌 Reef Regulations has emerged as a major impediment for every landowner from the Mary River to the tip of Cape York; coast to the very end of a minor tributary. There will a session devoted to this topic with time for Q&A.

Venue: Chinchilla Cultural Centre – “Wattle Room”, 80-86 Heeney Street, Chinchilla Qld
Time: Registrations open from 8.30am (for 9.00am start), March 13, 2021

COVID restrictions allow for under 90 people, so good idea to book early

For more information and for a registration form go to this web page:
https://propertyrightsaustralia.org.au/agm-2021/

20/01/2021

Arrow Energy have submitted an Amendment of existing EA for the PL253 -Hopeland, near Chinchilla.
The application requests to expand the existing coal seam gas activities by 10%, a significant increase in scale and considered a major amendment with an additional 280 wells and associated activities.
The amendment activities are in proximity to the former Linc Energy Site. The application is now in the public notification and feedback stage and submissions can be made (see links below).

The amendment includes such requests to amend the EA as the following:
- amend the definition of Essential Petroleum Activities to include
communications towers;
-amend the definition for Essential Petroleum Activities to allow
disposal of residual drilling material to occur
- releasing pipeline waste water to land eg emptying low point drains to land
- irrigating produced water
- releasing to land treated sewage effluent or greywater
- General waste may be disposed of onsite at a dedicated landfill facility
- noise allowances for night time drilling

https://environment.des.qld.gov.au/management/activities/non-mining/regulation/environmental-authority/current-ea-applications/arrow-ea-amendment-application

14/12/2020

Coal Seam Gas Deviated Drilling

Thank you to Shay Dougall (PRA Board Member) for this extract from her PhD Research. Shay talks about arrangements with landowners and the fact that a conduct and compensation agreement only applies if the resource company uses your place for access. If they are putting their infrastructure underground from a neighbouring place you have no agreement. Also be aware that the statutory right to a “make good” agreement for water loss does not apply.
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“These arrangements to date have also only been instigated when the gas company undertakes access to the individual’s land ostensibly through a fence or gate, above ground. However, there is significant subsurface infrastructure that may be accessing neighbouring land physically or via impact but via subsurface access. And due to the lack of physical visibility, these issues have not been considered to date.

Given the gas company have been given title to the gas, not the property, and a gas company must not enter private land unless they have an access agreement, the gas company must arrange access for authorised activities with the individual (and access is not defined as above or below). The individual with Freehold interests in the land has title to use as much of the property below the surface as is necessary for their undertaking (which may be considerable depths when one considers the potential for subsequent impacts of such subsurface activities). These issues indicate there is enormous work still to be done on understanding and protecting individuals whose property is accessed via activities such as deviated drilling.

Further to this, is another complication. That without the gas company approaching the neighbour for access to their subsurface property, the neighbour may be unaware of the access, and for the neighbour to find out any details about that deviated well and if it is accessing their subsurface property, the government has further disadvantaged them by limiting their right to information by allowing the gas companies to keep the drilling details of the wells commercially in confidence for up to 5 years.”

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image credit: https://directionaldrillingkon.blogspot.com/2016/10/introduction-directional-drilling-has.html

04/11/2020

HPVs are made of varying designs, and as time has passed, there has been some improvement in the designs. However, there are many HPVs across the massive network of thousands of kilometres of gas gathering systems across the Western Downs that are fundamentally designed to release gas and occasional...

19/10/2020

Santos’ grandiose promise of investing $3.6 billion on the Narrabri Gas Project is shrinking, despite the 850+ well gas field gaining planning approval from the NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC).