Leo Bahnisch is one landholder whose frustrations with the CSG pipeline through his cattle property north of Miles, have grown, prompting him to put a chain on the gate.
AN ELEVENTH hour decision by State Mining Minister Stirling Hinchliffe to approve a Part Five Permission application lodged by coal seam gas company QGC to force a landholder to provide resource sector employees access to his cattle property at Eidsvold is set to be challenged in the Supreme Court.
The ministerial approval was made on February 17, less than 48 hours before the Bligh government entered its caretaker mode and without consulting the impacted landholder.
It is the sixth time the Part Five ministerial power has been used for coal seam gas activities in Queensland.
Mr Hinchliffe’s decision has over ruled months of difficult land access negotiations between landholder Michael Baker, Chess Park, and QGC over the construction of a gas pipeline across the property.
Mr Baker’s solicitor Tom Marland, Creevey Russell Lawyers, Toowoomba, said his client had lodged an objection letter to QGC’s Part 5 Permission application with Mr Hinchliffe’s office on February 14.
He said three days was not adequate time for the minister to consider the landholder’s arguments and neither he nor the property owner was contacted by anyone from Mr Hinchliffe’s office to discuss the matter in the days leading to the decision.
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