Irrigators perform the vital role of producing food and fibre for the nation as well as producing significant export income.
Bundaberg Regional Irrigators Group Ltd (BRIG) has been established to represent irrigators within the Bundaberg district across a range of commodity groups including sugarcane, grain and horticulture.
Our Commitment
- To ensure a fair and reasonable system exists for the charging of use and access to water for irrigation purposes;
- To support and encourage self-management of the Bundaberg Irrigation scheme/s;
- Develop projects and policy to ensure the efficiency, viability and sustainability of irrigators in the Bundaberg Region.
Our Experience
The Board and management of BRIG are all stakeholders and irrigators and have the resources, responsibility, maturity, infrastructure, ability and desire to deal with all issues that have impact upon us as irrigators in the Bundaberg Irrigation Area. Because we use the infrastructure and have done so since the inception of the scheme, we have a much better understanding of the system and how it operates than others do.
Ag + Energy Social Licence Roundtable
As we continue the transition to renewable energy, genuine collaboration is essential to achieving better outcomes for landholders and regional communities.
What is the Initiative?
The Ag + Energy Social Licence Roundtable is a coordination and collaboration platform, which identifies strategic issues at the nexus of energy and agriculture and encourages collaboration across participants.
As we continue the transition to renewable energy, genuine collaboration is essential to achieving better outcomes for landholders and regional communities.
What is the Initiative?
The Ag + Energy Social Licence Roundtable is a coordination and collaboration platform, which identifies strategic issues at the nexus of energy and agriculture and encourages collaboration across participants.
For further information visit The Energy Charter website here.
Communique – Ag Energy Taskforce: September 2023
Members of Australia’s peak agriculture bodies have expressed serious concern that, as Australia’s energy transition to renewables occurs across rural and regional communities, infrastructure and renewable developers are not properly considering the social and economic impacts on farmers and broader rural communities.
At a meeting of the Ag Energy Taskforce1 in August, members highlighted the lack of genuine consultation with landholders who are being asked to host solar and wind generators and electricity infrastructure. Thousands of kilometres of transmission lines are needed to enable renewable wind and solar power to connect to the grid that provides energy to industries, cities, and regional communities.
Read the full statement here.
Bundaberg Regional Irrigators Group 