Origin Energy, Conocophillips, and Sinopec, recently lodged a new federal draft public environment application for its mostly export-focused “Gas Security Supply Project”, which would export LNG through the existing terminal at Gladstone and operate until 2061. 

The companies are seeking federal government approval to drill 4435 coal seam gas wells across tens of thousands of square kilometres of inland Queensland, stretching from near Miles on the Western Downs to Rolleston in the north, with large development areas planned east of the Carnarvon Highway. 

Origin hopes that Queenslanders won't hear about this project -- that's why we need to turn out to their office to let them know we see their expansion efforts. This action kicks off our escalating pressure on Origin. 

Gasfield at a glance:

• 4435 new coal seam gas wells

• 3623 km of new gas and water pipelines 

• Eight large gas processing facilities

Queensland’s many existing coal seam gas projects are already fracturing rural communities, harming farmland and the environment, contaminating water, and driving dangerous climate pollution.

Origin claims to be an ethical, climate-minded company. There is nothing ethical or climate-conscious about a new unconventional gas project that threatens a long list of endangered species, farmland, and the water our Queensland communities and environment depend on.

More than 16,000 coal seam gas wells have already been drilled across inland Queensland including through some of the state’s best farming country. Queensland can’t afford any more gas projects, certainly not one as large as what Origin APLNG has proposed.