A meeting at Corndale Hall on Saturday night was told that representatives from Arrow Energy have been back in the region requesting access to properties in the Numulgi/Woodlawn/Corndale area. The company, which is owned by Shell/Petrochina, holds Petroleum Exploration Licence (PEL) 445 that covers several thousand square kilometres from Byron Bay to west of Woodenbong. In the past few years they have sunk 15 exploration wells, but president of exploration Tony Knight told The Echo in March that the company's focus would remain in Queensland in the Surat Basin (around Dalby) and in the Bowen Basin (around Moranbah) for many years because the gas is easier to get out of the ground.
However the meeting at Corndale was told of one farmer being offered $2000 for access to his property for a drilling site. When he refused the figure increased to $15,000. He still refused, but another person said they had heard of one landowner being offered $100,000 for the right to put a drilling site on their land.
Northern Rivers Echo
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