Mass dredging off central Queensland to make way for the booming coal seam gas industry must be suspended until science shows it's not linked to hundreds of dead turtles and festering fish, the Australian Greens say.
Around 46 million cubic tonnes of seabed is being dredged to make way for two liquefied natural gas plants and export hubs on Curtis Island, as well as the expansion of the Gladstone port.
Deaths of turtles and dugongs off Queensland have nearly doubled this year to 999 and 150 respectively, state authorities this week revealed.
Sydney Morning Herald
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