A great-grandmother of six, 70-year-old June Norman, managed to stop a truck laden with a D9 bulldozer before her arrest.
Ms Norman was the first person arrested as protesters are blockading attempts by coal seam gas miner Queensland Gas Company (QGC) to lay a pipeline into the rural residential Tara Estates, 250km west of Brisbane.
QGC has plans for hundreds of gas wells in the estates, and residents say they're concerned about the impact it would have on their health, the environment and land values.
Ms Norman, from the Brisbane suburb of Brighton, said she had volunteered to be arrested because she felt very deeply about the future.
"I have lots of grandchildren and great-grandchildren and I'm really concerned about their future and what type of country that I'm leaving for them and where they are going to be getting food in 30 or 40 years' time," she told AAP on Tuesday.
Ms Norman has faced the law before, having been arrested at demonstrations against war games in central Queensland.
"When the police arrived and asked everyone to move on or they would be arrested, I stayed," she said of the blockade on Tuesday morning near Tara.
Disobeying the police direction meant Ms Norman stood in front of a large truck bearing a D9 bulldozer which was under escort, completely blocking a public road.
Ms Norman said the arresting police were "extremely courteous, extremely nice".
She was driven to Chinchilla where she was charged with failing to comply with a police direction.
Ms Norman said she was not locked up and was released to appear in Chinchilla Magistrates Court on March 30.
Bail conditions mean she cannot attend either of two protest sites before that date.
"I might hang around the base camp and give them support from this area," Ms Norman said.
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