Farmer Clive Duddy settles in at protest site on the property Glasserton on the Liverpool Plains under threat from gas giant Santos proposing to drill for coal seam gas on the property. Picture: Lorimer Peter Source: News Limited
THE Queensland government's capacity to regulate its burgeoning coal-seam gas industry is being undermined by the loss of its most experienced technical staff to gas companies.
In a new twist to poacher-turned-gamekeeper, the state government's Department of Environment and Resource Management has lost the head of its Liquefied Natural Gas Enforcement Unit, Andrew Brier, to Santos, which is developing the giant Gladstone LNG project in partnership with foreign oil companies.
DERM has lost almost 70 staff to resource companies in the past two years and the departmental head, Jim Reeves, has confirmed that other executives have been approached with job offers by CSG companies.
The Australian
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