# About ea-qld — what this site is and is not

> Where the data comes from, what is deliberately left out, and who publishes this site.

## About this site

A search layer over one public register. Not the register itself, and not a substitute for it.

### The source

Everything here comes from the public register of environmental authorities ,
published by the Queensland Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and
Innovation under CC-BY
4.0 , and read through the portal's own CKAN API.

This copy was collected on **2026-08-19** and holds
15,141 authorities held by 8,400 holders.

There is nothing new about this data. What did not exist is a way to search
it by activity: the register ships the ERA codes buried inside a free-text
column, so you cannot ask “who is authorised for regulated waste
transport” without parsing it first.

### What this site is not

- **Not the official register.** A status can change the day
after our collection. For anything that matters, use the
 department's own public
register .
- **Not proof of compliance.** An authority in effect means a
permit exists. It says nothing about whether its conditions are being met.
- **Not affiliated** with the department or the Queensland
Government.
- **Not a broker.** Where this site invites you to describe what
you need, it passes the enquiry on. It does not quote or take a booking.

### What is deliberately left out

The source carries a `Locations` column. We measured it before
deciding: its median length is nine characters and its usual content is a
mining tenement code such as `EPM16901` — useless to a reader. But
264 rows carry a street address, and 23.6% of holders show no company marker,
which means some are individuals.

A column unusable for 98% of rows and risky for the rest is not worth
publishing. So **this site has no geography at all**, and that is
a decision rather than an omission. The mesh runs on the legal taxonomy — the
ERA codes — which is what the doctrine asks you to look for before reaching for
a map anyway.

### Coverage

Queensland only. 5,751 of the 15,141 authorities carry at least one
ERA code; the remainder are resource activities such as exploration permits,
classified by industry instead.

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Página: https://ea-qld.pages.dev/about/
Fonte: Public register of environmental authorities — Queensland Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation
Recolha: 2026-08-19