Since GISERA’s launch in 2011, over 20 projects have commenced in QLD and more than half are completed. Work has been centered around the Surat Basin.
Monitoring grazing land with coal seam gas (CSG) infrastructure to better understand the impacts of CSG infrastructure, traffic and dust on animals and pastures. This will provide a detailed study of livestock behaviour, pastures, soil processes, and dust deposition for a real CSG property. Watch this short video to learn about the outcomes of the research.
Last updated: 12 February, 2019
This project will share understanding of changes on farms and in towns during CSG development in the Surat area, providing a detailed landscape map showing changes during CSG developments. This will also gather feedback on our research to date, including its strengths and information gaps.
Last updated: 11 April, 2018
This research identified the nature and likely extent of damage to agricultural soils, and methods for avoiding and improving soils. The project aimed to provide methods for installing and operating gas infrastructure that avoids soil damage, and novel methods for rehabilitating damage that does occur.
Last updated: 15 March, 2018
This project aims to understand the direct and indirect impacts of tracks and traffic on invasive species and erosion in agricultural landscapes, and resulting in guidelines.
Last updated: 9 October, 2018
This project aims to understand how to design farms for a new mixed land use. This study will provide design principles and practices that optimise farm and gas infrastructure and operations, minimising negative impacts and maximising benefits.
Last updated: 7 February, 2018
This project aimed to understand how farmers from a range of production systems (extensive grazing to intensive cropping) perceive and value CSG developments on their and others’ farms. The result provided information that assists farmers and developers to negotiate means of co-existence that maximise benefits and minimise social and economic costs.
Last updated: 15 March, 2018
This project will assist in the preservation of agricultural productivity during land use change. The study will result in developing methods for most equitably and/ or cost-effectively preserving agricultural productivity.
Last updated: 10 January, 2018
This project involves a comprehensive assessment of air quality in the Surat Basin region in Queensland using air quality measurement network and modelling to identify the impact of CSG production activities on air quality in the Surat region. Watch this video to find out the results from the three year study. Watch this […]
Last updated: 23 July, 2019
This project analysed whole of life GHG emissions, including extraction, transportation and usage of CSG in the Surat Basin. The analysis includes domestic and offshore usage of the gas including for electricity generation in Asia. The project will provide assessments of benefits and risks related to the extraction, transport and usage of gas in terms […]
Last updated: 31 January, 2020
This project will detect and measure methane seeping from underground in the Surat Basin, and identify sources of methane to provide a baseline of methane emissions on a regional scale. This will result in a methane emissions data set that can be used to compare changes in methane concentrations as coal seam gas production in […]
Last updated: 16 December, 2020
This project involves monitoring and communicating the changes and trends in community wellbeing, resilience and attitudes to CSG development across different phases of industry operation in south west Queensland, and identifies how these vary between the construction, post-construction, and operations phases of development.
Last updated: 30 January, 2020
This project examined and measured the changes since the end of the construction and beginning of the operations phases through comparisons with survey 1 in 2014. This study identified strategies that can be enacted by local and state government to proactively reduce stresses associated with rapid change and also to take advantage of opportunities arising […]
Last updated: 13 February, 2019
This research aimed to identify community aspirations and their overlaps and/or disparities with existing resources, industry, and policy trajectories. Specifically, to understand how different community segments see the future of the region and how these reflect the economic and policy avenues for the region, in turn the research will help inform sound industry and policy activities […]
Last updated: 15 March, 2018
By understanding future impacts on regional economies and better inform on how local businesses can respond. This project will provide forecasting which calculates the likely economic effects during the operations phase and lessons to support local businesses.
Last updated: 10 October, 2019
This study reviewed principal indicators of community function and well-being, the resources and strategies necessary for enabling and enhancing community responses, and how communities respond to major developments in their region. This report can be used to inform strategic investments that will help maintain or enhance community function and well-being.
Last updated: 15 March, 2018
This project aimed to synthesise existing knowledge on the nature of rural socio-economic transitions occurring as a result of resource developments, and track the social impacts of regional economic change. This study also identified ways to help local communities in responding to resource development in order to maximise social benefit.
Last updated: 15 March, 2018
This research is the most comprehensive investigation into hydraulic fracturing activities in Australia to date and represents the leading edge of international onshore gas studies. This was a unique research opportunity to monitor the impacts of hydraulic fracturing at six CSG wells prior to, during, and after hydraulic fracturing operations in the Surat Basin. Governance, […]
Last updated: 4 January, 2021
This intensive monitoring campaign will measure the air, water and soil impacts of hydraulic fracturing of production wells in the Surat Basin. This project will result in a report summarising the current state of knowledge regarding sources of air, water and soil pollutants associated with CSG extraction using hydraulic fracturing, a peer-reviewed design for a measurement program […]
Last updated: 6 July, 2020
This research assesses the likelihood of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing and wellbore damage. This produces a risk estimate of groundwater contamination at a basin/sub-basin scale. This will help management plans and strategies to reduce the risk of surface and groundwater contamination and provide communities a better understanding of potential impacts to local water resources.
Last updated: 6 September, 2018
To gain a better understanding of the speed and direction of groundwater flow, this project measures and models specific chemicals called environmental tracers. This research provides new data and a modelling approach to assess flow rates and volumes of usable groundwater resources.
Last updated: 29 August, 2018
This project will review and assess the presence of organic compounds in groundwater found in the Surat and Bowen Basins using existing open source and company held data. The outcomes include information and methods to assess possible sources of hydrocarbons in groundwater to help differentiate naturally occurring hydrocarbons and those potentially introduced during gas extraction […]
Last updated: 25 October, 2018
This project aimed to characterise the baseline geochemistry of groundwater and formation water prior to and during initial stages of development to understand groundwater age and origin. This resulted in baseline measures of groundwater quality and protocols for monitoring changes in groundwater quality, during and after development.
Last updated: 16 March, 2018
This project aimed to determine the feasibility of large scale re-injection schemes. The outcomes include models that assess the feasibility of large re-injection schemes and predict how re-injection may reduce impacts from CSG development.
Last updated: 13 February, 2019
To understand, quantify and manage clogging of injection wells during re-injection of CSG water permeates, brines and blends. The final report outlines strategies to manage clogging of re-injection wells to maximise re-injection volumes.
Last updated: 16 March, 2018
This project looked to understand and quantify aquifer reactions occurring due to re-injection of CSG water, and their impacts on water quality. This resulted in methods for predicting water quality changes resulting from CSG water re-injection.
Last updated: 13 February, 2019
This research will improve the understanding of how ecological and biological traits of rare species of plants, commonly encountered in restoration projects, and different environmental factors determine viable population sizes by using computer models. Producing evidence-based guidelines for the size of plant populations needed to maximise establishment and persistence of rare plant species.
Last updated: 21 August, 2018
This research identified genetic and demographic factors that may limit the success of establishing a rare daisy (Rutidosis lantana) in a new location. The report outlines best practice guidelines for moving the Rutidosis lantana, a rare daisy, to a new location. The guidelines will help to minimise biological limits to reproductive success and maximise population viability […]
Last updated: 15 February, 2019
This project studies two species, the Golden-tailed gecko and Glossy black-cockatoo, to assess the range of impacts from CSG development in south-west Queensland on their habitat. The project provided management options for the Golden-tailed gecko and Glossy black-cockatoo habitats to ensure their long-term endurance.
Last updated: 15 March, 2018
This study determined the sensitivity of the region’s flora and fauna to changed fire regimes, and the thresholds at which changed fire regimes cause substantial ecological impact. The research provided advice on how to best manage the biodiversity impacts of altered fire regimes associated with CSG development.
Last updated: 15 March, 2018
This work identifies and understands the broad range of existing and new threats to biodiversity across a CSG development region. The final report assists in determining which conservation management activities will best mitigate the risks to biodiversity.
Last updated: 15 March, 2018
