A MORATORIUM should be placed on most of the biggest new coal seam gas drilling plans in eastern Australia, and regulations governing pollution and land access significantly tightened, according to an interim Senate committee report.
In a move that would freeze billions of dollars in planned investment, the report recommended the suspension of all coal seam gas projects in the area of southern Queensland and northern NSW where the Murray-Darling Basin and the Great Artesian Basin overlap, pending new research into water pollution and the effects of ''fracking''.
Sydney Morning Herald
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