CSG is a lot to wade through on the farm

WHEN Cecil Plains landholder Graham Clapham returned home late last week there was a package waiting for him at his front door.

Plastered on the box perched on his front steps was a sticker that read "Caution: Heavy 27kg."

Carrying the box into his home and placing it on the kitchen table, his worst fears were realised when he opened the package to reveal it was the 6000 page Environmental Impact Statement document for Arrow Energy's proposed state-wide coal seam gas projects.

The EIS was released for public consultation on Friday after being considered by the Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) since December.

Landholders across the region have been granted an extension by government to 60 business days to respond to this heavy EIS goliath, which Mr Clapham calculates is roughly 100 pages a day of scientific analysis for a busy farmer to wade through.

"I'll have to give up sleeping and working on the farm to make sure I can get through the whole thing," he laughs.

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