The chief executive of Origin Energy says the Coal Seam Gas industry should be completely transparent to allay fears from anti-CSG groups.

Operators in the sector have come up against strong opposition to the development of CSG, with protestors doing their best to halt or slow operations, but Origin Energy chief executive Grant King says it is the result of myths, mistruths and paranoia.

“The answers are simple - they are clear and straightforward," King says, “to the extent where people who are opposed, who are not interested in those answers because the basis of their opposition is not about those facts, that is where the greatest concern is - because they are then happy to propagate misrepresentations... there is clearly a small group of people who have an ideological opposition to what is happening and who don't feel bound to that same level of facts that we do."

There is little debate over CSG’s contribution to employment or the economy; injecting $60 billion in investment dollars to the Queensland’s coffers and creating about 10,000 jobs in the past year.

Some Queensland wells have been in continuous operation for over twenty years with no measurable environmental damage, so it has been a great surprise to many that opposition to CSG has grown so strong, so recently.

Managing Director of BG Group's Australian subsidiary QGC, Derek Fisher, says the sector underestimated the power of misinformation distributed by opposition groups, including the "exaggerated" claims of contaminated water tables and risk prime farming land.

"These past few years should cause the resource sector to seriously think about how it modernises its approach to public and policy advocacy, to constantly make and remake the case for our industry and the numerous advantages it is bringing to Australia," Fisher said, “this is probably the most regulated industry in Australia and has had so much light shone on it that it's sunburnt - but this has not been enough for our critics."

A large amount of the misinformation about the risk of coal seam gas operations in Australia stems from fear over shale gas in the United States. However, the processes to extract gas from these two situations differ greatly, with the Australian technique considered a much safer and less invasive method.