Tuesday, August 23

Greens and Farmers Try to Put an End to Fracking in Australia

The federal parliament will test the support of the major parties for coal seam mining this week in Australia. The Australian Greens are to introduce a bill to increase the rights of land owners and protect the quality of water along with an independent MP.

Independent MP Tony Windsor wants the Coal Seam Gas industry to slow down and will introduce the private member’s bill on Monday to extend the existing federal environmental laws. This is based on fears of farmers in rural Queensland and New South Wales who say that the process of fracking will poison the underground water, contaminate arable land be the cause of health troubles for people in the region.  Read More 

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