Recent coal mine and coal seam gas discharges into Fitzroy River

The department has been notified of four coal seam gas operations in the Fitzroy region operating outside of their Environmental Authorities since 30 November. These are:
Fitzroy coal seam gas operations:
CSG Arrow Energy (Moranbah) (20 Dec) – unauthorised release of water.
CSG Molopo Energy (Moura) (7 Dec) – unauthorised release of water.
CSG APLNG (Wandoan) (27-28 Dec) – controlled discharge of produced water to prevent pond overtopping.
APLNG (Westgrove)* (27 Dec) – controlled discharge of produced water to prevent pond overtopping.

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