Wednesday, November 30

All Parties Endorse Tighter Regulation for Coal Seam Gas

MARK COLVIN: A new senate report is recommending a moratorium on coal seam gas projects in key parts of Queensland and New South Wales until the completion of studies into the impact on groundwater.

Unusually, all sides of politics have endorsed the recommendation.

The interim report from the Senate's Rural Affairs Committee also calls for more establishment of a trust, funded by gas companies, to pay for any problems caused by collapsing pipelines.

But it's stopped short of recommending that landholders have the absolute right to lock gas companies out of their land.

From Canberra, Naomi Woodley reports.

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