Thursday, June 14

Metgasco in hot water




A holding pond at Woodview, west of Casino, used by coal seam gas company Metgasco to store waste water.By Scott Harlum/ Northern Star.

COAL-seam gas company Metgasco has been fined by the State Government for dumping waste "produced" water at the Casino sewage treatment plant.

Richmond Valley Council has also been warned by the state's environmental watchdog for allowing the dumping contrary to its license to operate the plant.

The council has been instructed to stop accepting water from the company.

The unlawful dumping was outlined in a letter from the Environmental Protection Authority to the NSW Environmental Defender's Office dated June 7.

It detailed Metgasco dumped more than 1.3 million litres of waste water at the plant in the 10 months to March.

It also detailed the company was told it cannot dump water held in storage ponds at a sewage plant and that it is unlikely to get government approval to do so.
But Metgasco has failed to see what all the fuss is about.

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