Bioregional assessments
Case studies
- The Commonwealth and Queensland use expert scientific advice to manage risk from a coal seam gas project
- Examples illustrating how advice from the IESC has been applied in setting project conditions
- Using adaptive management plans to manage risk in Queensland coal seam gas projects
Coal in Australia
- Coal resources - Geoscience Australia
Definitions
Coal seam gas
- Coal seam gas - Geoscience Australia
- Coal seam gas - Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection
Unconventional gas
- What is unconventional gas - CSIRO
Codes of practice and national guidelines
- The National Harmonised Regulatory Framework for Natural Gas from Coal Seams
- Standing Council on Energy and Resources, 2013 - Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality
- Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council (ANZECC), 2000 - Minimum Construction Requirements for Water Bores in Australia
4th Edition - NUDLC, 2020 - Minimum Standards for the Construction and Reconditioning of Water Bores that Intersect the Sediments of Artesian Basins in Queensland
- DERM, 2012 - Code of Practice for Constructing and Abandoning Coal Seam Gas Wells in Queensland
- DEEDI, 2011 - Code of Practice for Coal Seam Gas Well Integrity
- NSW Trade and Investment 2012 - Code of Practice for Coal Seam Gas Fracture Stimulation Activities
- NSW Trade and Investment 2012 - Australian Groundwater Modelling Guidelines
- National Water Commission 2012
EPBC Act
- About the EPBC Act
- Environment assessment process
- Latest referrals and public notices
- Referral flowchart
- Significant Impact Guidelines 1.3: Coal seam gas and large coal mining developments - impacts on water resources
IESC Fact sheets
Fact sheets and other publications published by the IESC can be found on the IESC website – http://iesc.environment.gov.au/publications
Regulation
- How does the Government regulate the water-related impacts of coal and coal seam gas development? - fact sheet, 2015
Research reports
These reports have been commissioned by the Department of the Environment on the advice of the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development.
- Assessment of regional-scale effects on groundwater balance and quality linked to increased inter-aquifer leakage
- Background review: Aquifer connectivity within the Great Artesian Basin, and the Surat, Bowen and Galilee Basins
- Background review: Bore integrity
- Background review: Co-produced water – risks to aquatic ecosystems
- Background review: Hydraulic fracturing ('fraccing') techniques
- Background review: Subsidence from coal mining activities
- Background review: Subsidence from coal seam gas extraction in Australia
- Bore and well induced inter-aquifer connectivity: a review of literature on failure mechanisms and conceptualisation of hydrocarbon reservoir-aquifer failure pathways
- Characterisation of fluid flow in aquitards using helium concentrations in quartz, Gunnedah Basin, NSW
- Conceptual representation of fluid flow conditions associated with faults in sedimentary basins
- Ecological and hydrogeological survey of the Great Artesian Basin springs - Springsure, Eulo, Bourke and Bogan River supergroups - Volume 1: history, ecology and hydrogeology
- Ecological and hydrogeological survey of the Great Artesian Basin springs - Springsure, Eulo, Bourke and Bogan River supergroups - Volume 2: hydrogeological profiles
- Groundwater hydrochemical characterisation of the Surat Region and Laura Basin - Queensland - Geoscience Australia
- Integrated analysis of hydrochemical, geophysical, hydraulic and structural geology data to improve characterisation and conceptualisation of faults for use in regional groundwater flow models
- Modelling inter-aquifer leakage associated with well integrity failure
- Modelling water-related ecological responses to coal seam gas extraction and coal mining
- Monitoring and management of subsidence induced by coal seam gas extraction
- Monitoring and management of subsidence induced by longwall coal mining activity
- Multiscale aquitard hydraulic conductivity characterisation and inclusion in groundwater flow models: Application to the Gunnedah Basin, New South Wales
- Overview of aquitard and geological fault simulation approaches in regional scale assessments of coal seam gas extraction impacts
- Regional Hydrogeological Characterisation of the Laura Basin, Queensland - Geoscience Australia
- Regional Hydrogeological Characterisation of the Maryborough Basin, Queensland - Geoscience Australia
- Regional Hydrogeological Characterisation of the Otway Basin, Victoria and South Australia - Geoscience Australia
- Regional Hydrogeological Characterisation of the St Vincent Basin, South Australia - Geoscience Australia
- Research to inform the assessment of ecohydrological responses to coal seam gas extraction and coal mining
- Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of a regional-scale groundwater flow model featuring coal seam gas extraction
- Simulating the groundwater flow dynamics of fault zones
- Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone: ecological characteristics, sensitivities to change, and monitoring and reporting techniques
- Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone: longwall mining engineering design - subsidence prediction, buffer distances and mine design options
- Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone: evaluation of mitigation and remediation techniques
- What are the ecological impacts of groundwater drawdown?
Archived
- Coal seam gas extraction: modelling groundwater impacts
- Reference list for water-related coal seam gas and coal mining research – Report 1: Australia, Canada and the United States of America, January 2000 to June 2012
- Reference list for water-related coal seam gas and coal mining research – Report 2: United Kingdom, China, Russia and India, January 2000 to June 2012
- Reference list for water-related coal seam gas and coal mining research – Report 3: Australia, Canada, China, India, Russia, United Kingdom and United States of America, July 2012 to September 2013
- Reference list for water-related coal seam gas and coal mining research - Report 4: Australia, Canada, China, India, Russia, United Kingdom, and the US, October 2013 to September 2014