The Queensland Government ignored environmental safety guidelines when it granted Origin Energy and ConocoPhillips permission to release toxic water from its coal seam gas operations into the headwaters of the Murray Darling Basin.
In June last year the government granted an environmental approval allowing the companies to discharge the equivalent of eight Olympic swimming pools of treated coal seam gas water per day into the Condamine River south of Chinchilla.
The water comes from the company's desalination plant on the Walloons gas field, which is part of Origin Energy and ConocoPhillips' $35 billion coal seam gas and liquefied natural gas plant near Gladstone.
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