The State Government has released a wide range of policies designed to increase certainty for landholders and CSG companies on resource-use issues, including the previously announced Land Access Framework, the Surat Basin Future Directions Statement and legislative amendments aimed improv-ing the management of groundwater and coal seam gas water.

However, he concedes that "arguably the most important issue" of dealing with impacts of CSG activities on adjacent aquifers is yet to be fully resolved.

"But that doesn't mean that nothing is happening," he said on Tuesday.

"Some protections have already been brought in and some initiatives already announced in terms of various studies.

"Those protections include what we call those make good provisions where they are assessed for impact, even before operations begin on the levels of aquifers that may be intersected with those coal seams.

"At the regional forums that start this week we will be letting landholders know what we're doing in terms of putting staff of the ground, various studies that have been undertaken, and we still have further work to do to deal with policy and legislative development.

"So we're not ignoring what is arguably the most important issue, that is what do to with the water and what impacts may coal seam gas extraction have on adjacent aquifers.

"There is still more work to be done and part of that process is actually consulting landholders particularly over the next few weeks at these forums."

Mr Robertson said agriculture generated $22.7 billion to the Queensland economy in 2006-07 and employed nearly 273,000 Queenslanders, while the resource sector contributed $26.36 billion to the Queensland economy in the same year, including $1.3 billion in royalties used by the State to fund essential services.

Both industries were valuable contributors to the economy and a balance was required to ensure a positive future for both industries, he said.