Socio-economic impacts of onshore gas activity in Southern Queensland
This project will study a range of potential positive and negative social, demographic and economic impacts that are commonly linked to onshore natural gas extraction activity, across the regions of the Surat and Bowen basins, in southern Queensland.
CSIRO researchers will explore and analyse secondary data, primarily from the 2016 and 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Population Census, to identify and evaluate impacts that natural gas extraction could have had in communities across these regions during the last two decades.
Onshore natural gas extraction activity will be examined to establish any connections to local economic functionality, employment changes across sectors, alteration in migration patterns, educational attainment, and workforce participation for youth and women.
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Evaluating the medium-term socio-economic impacts of onshore gas activity in southern Queensland
This fact sheet describes a CSIRO research project designed to update our understanding of the medium-term impacts of onshore natural gas extraction in Queensland’s Bowen and Surat Basins, by analysing socio-economic data from last 10 years.
Project progress
This project is 80% complete.
