Australian oil and gas company Santos has launched the first online portal to make water testing results from coal seam gas (CSG) projects available to the public.
The results will be from wells across the Surat and Bowen basins in Queensland.
The expansion of the CSG industry in Queensland, as well as plans for operations in NSW, have been opposed by some farmers and environmentalists who are concerned about its impact on prime farmland and water quality.
Santos GLNG president Mark MacFarlane says the online water portal will show results from more than 100 wells that monitor surface and ground water.
It will provide information on surface and sub-surface water quality results and it will be updated quarterly.
"Santos began monitoring surface water quality back in 1999 in Roma, Queensland, so we already have 10 years' worth of data which we can compare against," he said.
"We are now also monitoring water pressures in local aquifers around planned CSG operations in Roma, Fairview and Arcadia."
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