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A scien(fic collabora(on between the Department of the Environment; Bureau of Meteorology; CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship; and Geoscience Australia
BIOREGIONAL ASSESSMENTS
Providing scien6fic water resource informa6on associated with coal seam gas and large coal mines
Independent Expert Scientific Committee and Office of Water Science Peter Baker, Principal Science Advisor, Office of Water Science
Galilee Basin Coal and Energy Conference, 2013
v Independent Expert Scientific Committee (the Committee) v Office of Water Science (OWS) v Advice function v Bioregional Assessments Programme
Summary of presentation
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v Statutory Committee under the EPBC Act § Interim Committee
v Established December 2012 and meets monthly
v The Committee: § provides advice on coal seam gas and large
coal mining developments about impacts on water resources
§ oversees bioregional assessments § oversees research on potential water related
impacts of coal seam gas and large coal mining projects
Independent Expert Scientific Committee
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v Expertise includes hydrogeology, hydrology, ecology, geology, ecotoxicology and natural resource management:
§ Ms Lisa Corbyn (Chair) § Professor Craig Simmons § Emeritus Professor Angela Arthington § Ms Jane Coram § Emeritus Professor Peter G Flood § Dr Andrew Johnson § Professor Dayanthi Nugegoda § Mr Jim McDonald
Independent Expert Scientific Committee
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v Lead agency v Bioregional Assessments v Research to address critical gaps v Secretariat
Office of Water Science
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v EPBC Act v National Partnership:
§ New South Wales § Queensland § South Australia § Victoria
v To date provided advice on 26 requests v Public release
Advice function
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Advice function
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www.environment.gov.au/coal-‐seam-‐gas-‐mining/publica6ons.html
v A scientific analysis of the ecology, hydrology, geology and hydrogeology of a bioregion
v Explicit assessment of potential direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of coal seam gas and coal mining developments on water resources, including any impacts associated with salt production/salinity
Bioregional Assessments
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v Six priority bioregions § Underpin advice § Knowledge and information products § Enduring
v Three year programme up to June 2016
v OWS and the Committee are not regulators
Bioregional Assessments Programme
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v Impacts on receptors v Modelling where possible v Quantitative, semi-quantitative and qualitative methods
§ Multiple lines of evidence v Workflow
§ transparency § uncertainty
v Reproducibility v Scientific advice
Principles of Bioregional Assessments methodology
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Assets and Receptors Water-‐dep
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nt assets
Receptors
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Methodology for Bioregional Assessments (BRAM)
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v Scientific advice v Conceptual modelling of causal v Quantitative, semi-quantitative and qualitative outputs v Extent and nature of impacts v Measures of confidence of impacts v Advice on the likelihood of risks v Recommendations
§ monitoring § review frequency § additional risk assessment studies § approaches to risk mitigation
Bioregional Assessments outputs
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Further information on the Committee or the Office of Water Science can be found at: http://environment.gov.au/coal-seam-gas-mining/index.html
Further information
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