qld's dept environment & resource management , page-5

If I'm not mistaken, Mr John Bradley was the DG at the time that the permission was given to allow the discharge of polluted CSG water. The approval was signed by a DERM director, Mr Rod Kent (who also gets a couple of mentions in Couger's Statement of Claim), but ultimately, the buck stops with Bradley.

There are also many interesting items on Derm's own website which make for interesting reading. One example from what they call the "DERM link" issue 2010, is in relation to financial assistance being provided to farmers to improve the efficiency of water use on their farms. The link is http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/link/2010issue02/healthy-headwaters.html

This is Federal money but the scheme is to be administered by DERM.

The irony is that while DERM is happy to recieve Federal money to help farmers in the QLD Murray -Darling basin better use their available water in light of climate change and best enviromental practice, it is quite happy to authorise CSG companies to pollute the exact same water that these farmers and communities will be using.
Talk about having it both ways!
I'm sure there are plenty of these examples if you take the time to look, but they certainly highlight some inconsistencies in policy at DERM.
It certainly will be interesting how the QLD Government go about their defence of the Couger Statement of claim, especially in light of news such as the authorised CSG pollution of the upper Murray - Darling basin. It would be my opinion that at the very least, it wouldn't strengthen their case.

Cam