"Make Good" is an admission that they intend to damage the Great Artesian Basin. It is a policy designed to buy the silence of anyone who notices. The perfect crime?

Does the government honestly expect landholders to believe this? There is no way a bore can be "made good". Coal seams and aquifers are interconnected. The government and CSG companies are trying to paint the picture of co-existence. In reality, the government is systematically de-allocating water from farmers and legislating a water free-for-all to CSG companies. Mugabe would be proud of the Bligh Government's efforts at cleansing the countryside of unwanted farmers. I simply wonder if and when the landholders are going get off the meaningless committees and actually show some fight.

Three yearly underground water monitoring reports via modelling to pin the tail on the donkey. The Minister has to be joking.

First up, modelling is only as good as the inputs, assumptions and integrity of the modelling consultants.

To place absolute reliance upon the regulators who have a conflict of interest due to the policy decisions of their political masters is flawed and definitely not in the interests of landholders.

Even with the very best of intentions, assessments can go awry.

EXAMPLE: nuclear power industry in Japan. Assurances were given that every conceivable contingency was covered and there could be no unforeseen consequences!

When the Minister announces funding for modelling parameters to be genuinely independently examined, and that modelling inputs and techniques are agreed as adequte by all parties with the results to be independently peer reviewed by consultants representing landholders, then she will have announced a minimum requirement.

Until then representative bodies that purport to represent landholder interests (stakeholders) must act to protect those interests by banging on the table and insisting upon such measures