Farm manager Stuart Gray will live on-site with his family and run the demonstration property at Monreagh Source: Supplied
ORIGIN Energy is planning a demonstration farm across the Condamine River from its coal-seam gas facility in western Queensland, to show that mining and agriculture can exist together.
When fully operational, the 1100ha Monreagh property, about 300km west of Brisbane, will have 20 coal-seam gas wells.
Its owners claim it will be five to six times more productive than it is now because it will have a guaranteed supply of water from Origin Energy's Talinga coal-seam gas facility on the other side of the Condamine, which produces 6-9 megalitres a day as a by-product of coal-seam gas mining.
As coal-seam gas mining increases, so too will water produced at Talinga. Of the 20 megalitres a day the facility is licensed to produce, up to a third will be piped to Monreagh.
The Australian
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