The Great Artesian Basin: A Contested Resource Environment of Subterranean Water and Coal Seam Gas in Australia

Kim de Rijke; Paul G Munro; Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita

doi:10.1080/08941920.2015.1122133

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The Great Artesian Basin: A Contested Resource Environment of Subterranean Water and Coal Seam Gas in Australia

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The Great Artesian Basin: A Contested Resource Environment of Subterranean Water and Coal Seam Gas in Australia

Kim de Rijke, Paul G Munro and Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita

Society & Natural Resources, Vol.29(6), pp.696-710

2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2015.1122133

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fracking

great Artesian Basin

natural resource extraction

unconventional gas

underground, water

The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) in Australia is one of the largest subterranean aquifer systems in the world. In this article we venture into the subterranean "resource environment"' of the Great Artesian Basin and ask whether new insights can be provided by social analyses of the "vertical third dimension" in contemporary contests over water and coal seam gas. Our analysis makes use of a large number of publicly available submissions made to recent state and federal government inquiries, augmented with data obtained through ethnographic fieldwork among landholders in the coal seam gas fields of southern Queensland. We examine the contemporary contest in terms of ontological politics, and regard the underground as a challenging "socionature hybrid" in which the material characteristics, uses, and affordances of water and coal seam gas resources in the Great Artesian Basin are entangled with broader social histories, technologies, knowledge debates, and discursive contests.

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Title: The Great Artesian Basin: A Contested Resource Environment of Subterranean Water and Coal Seam Gas in Australia
Authors: Kim de Rijke (Author) - University of Queensland
Paul G Munro (Author) - University of New South Wales
Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
Publication details: Society & Natural Resources, Vol.29(6), pp.696-710
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc.
Date published: 2016
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1122133
ISSN: 0894-1920
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449498402621
Output Type: Journal article

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