Port Curtis seagrass monitoring programme : [for] Southern Pacific Petroleum (Development), Suncor Energy (Management)

The development of the Stuart Oil Shale project has the capacity to cause indirect and direct impacts on adjacent extensive seagrass/algal beds through increased sedimentation and changes to freshwater flows. As part of a programme to avoid such impacts, Southern Pacific Petroleum Development has funded biannual and annual monitoring of seagrass communities at the Friend Point (5 stations) and Flying Fox Creek (5 stations) mudflats to assess seagrass composition, cover, biomass and macrobenthic diversity since August 1998.