Meeting 78 of the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development was held on 28 July 2021.

This review highlights the work of the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development (the IESC) for the 2020–2021 financial year.

Meeting 77 of the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development was held on 22-24 June 2021.

The Ensham Mine is an existing open-cut and underground bord-and-pillar coal mine, located 35 kilometres east of Emerald in the western part of the central Bowen Basin, and the Fitzroy Basin catchment, in Queensland.

The proposed Saraji East Mining Lease Project is a single-seam underground mine development located within the Bowen Basin, Queensland.

Meeting 76 of the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development was held on 20 May 2021.

Meeting 75 of the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development was held on 15 April 2021.

The IESC Information Guidelines Explanatory Note: Characterisation and modelling of geological fault zones is now open for public consultation. Submissions on the draft Explanatory Note close at 5.00pm (AEDT), Friday 18 June 2021.

Meeting 74 of the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development was held on 10-11 March 2021.

The proposed project is an expansion to the existing Mount Pleasant Operation, located approximately three kilometres northwest of Muswellbrook in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales.