This report was finalised by the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development (IESC) based on consideration of work commissioned by the Office of Water Science on behalf of the Interim Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Coal Mining (IIESC) in May 2012 through the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (SEWPaC).
Main contributors of scientific input to this work were Damian Barrett (CSIRO), Carol Couch (CSIRO), Daniel Metcalfe (CSIRO), Lucy Lytton (Geoscience Australia), Deepak Adhikary (CSIRO) and Becky Schmidt (CSIRO).
