There are Santos reports of a farm in Queensland that is using mined water. Could you provide evidence to support this, including stock run, crops grown and harvested?
Santos is running a pilot scheme with a Queensland landholder. In October 2010, they will be given treated water to grow forage crops and lucerne or leucena. Approximately 650 megalitres of treated water will be provided to the landholder over three years for 130 hectares of centre pivot irrigation and 100 hectares of drip irrigation. All crops are designed to improve live weight gain of cattle on the farm. At Santos’ Fairview operations in Queensland, we are growing 500 hectares of Chinchilla white gums and expect the trees to be at 40 metres by 2034. Santos is also growing leucena plantations at its Fairview field using treated water for irrigation. All treated water comes from our new water treatment plants and a desalination plant that will treat about 24 megalitres of coal seam gas water a day. State-of-the-art water and soil monitoring facilities have been installed at locations throughout the plantation, and on local rivers and adjoining properties. Santos is committed to the su
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