Source: Beef Central A Dalby feedlot operator has launched Federal Court action against the Queensland Gas Company, in a case that underscores ongoing tensions between landholders and coal seam gas companies over access to groundwater. After four years of negotiations to secure water produced from gas wells operated by Queensland Gas Company on their property in order to supplement their feedlot's water supply, but having received no water, Max and David Winders' Wambo Catt...

Source: Grain Central   The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is eyeing a start date of 2020 for the tunnel through the Great Dividing Range which will be a crucial piece of infrastructure for the Inland Rail project. Speaking at a presentation in Toowoomba yesterday, ARTC manager of the Gowrie to Helidon and Helidon to Calvert projects, Max Nichols, said the company would be preparing environmental impact statements (EIS) over the next 18 months. In the lead-up...

Source: Gain Central Construction began today on a new intermodal transport interchange on Queensland's Darling Downs that will link with the new Inland Rail Line and has potential to bring significant cost benefits to grain producers and exporters. The InterLink SQ development west of Toowoomba is funded by 83 predominantly local families and includes a three-kilometre frontage along the existing Brisbane to Charleville rail line and the proposed route of the Melbourne to Bris...

Source: Warwick Daily News  AN $8.4bn federal government investment into the Australian Rail Track Corporation to deliver an Inland Rail link between Melbourne and Brisbane will be a boon to Queensland's south west. The 1700km freight corridor will travel via Toowoomba, Parkes and Albury with links to other state capital cities via the existing Australian Rail Track Corporation network. The so-called Steel Mississippi has long been a National Party priority. It involv...

Source:  Heath Aston Farmers have cast doubt on Barnaby Joyce's claim that sharing government gas royalties could help deliver landowners "hundreds of thousands or possibly millions of dollars a year". The Deputy Prime Minister has thrown his weight behind the concept of royalty-sharing agreements with farmers as a way to turn around fierce resistance to the coal-seam gas industry in rural and regional areas. Under its new energy plan, the South Australian go...