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.