Help protect Channel Country rivers and floodplains
The Palasczcuk Government has released the Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) for the Queensland Lake Eyre Basin for public consultation. The RIS outlines options for protecting the rivers and floodplains in the Queensland part of the Lake Eyre Basin (aka Channel Country), which it promised to do at the 2015, 2017 and 2020 elections. The Channel Country hosts some of the last remaining free-flowing desert rivers left on Earth, which supports an abundance of endemic wildlife and migratory birds that rely on the region’s extensive wetlands for their survival. The Channel Country also supports cultural connections tens of thousands of years old, one of Australia’s largest organic beef producers, and a budding tourism industry. If approved, new oil and gas development will potentially cause irreversible impacts to the regions ecological values by altering flood flow regimes that sustain this almost pristine landscape, which will devastate the regions endemic wildlife, migratory birds and First Nation Peoples cultural values. Due to the high risk of irreversible impacts occurring to the regions ecological, hydrological and cultural values, it’s vital that new oil and gas development is permanently banned in the Queensland part of the Lake Eyre Basin. As they best reflect the need to prohibit new oil and gas development from the greatest possible extent of the Channel Country, QCC strongly supports implementation of Spatial Option 3 and Regulatory Option 4 as outlined in the RIS.
Read the RIS, additional information and other supporting technical documents.
Make a submission
As every voice counts, we are urging our supporters to make a submission to the Consultation Regulatory Impact Statement for the Queensland Lake Eyre Basin. You can do this in the following ways:
◦ Attaching your name to the submission template on this page
◦ Completing the on-line survey
◦ Emailing your written submission to [email protected]