Stakeholder groups have drawn vastly different conclusions from a report into the impact of coal seam gas (CSG) on Surat Basin aquifers.
The Queensland Water Commission on Thursday released the draft Surat Underground Water Impact Report (UWIR) for public consultation.
It found 2.5 per cent or 528 of the 21,000 private bores across the state's south east will be adversely affected by the CSG industry.
Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney said the report showed the industry would not have as big an impact on the environment as anti-CSG protesters made out.
"This report provides some very inconvenient findings to some of the alarmists out there whose real agenda is to attack the fossil fuel industry per se," he told parliament on Thursday.
Resource companies and industry bodies welcomed the report, saying the results were consistent with data they had gathered.
"Industry will be proactive in contacting each and every owner of a potentially affected bore" to discuss make-good arrangements over water supply, an APPEA spokesman said in a statement.
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