2 November 2011 - Australian Greens spokesperson for mining Senator Larissa Waters today called for an end to the federal Government’s handballing of responsibility for risky coal seam gas (CSG) mining, and said it’s time to do the proper homework on the long-term impacts of CSG.
Senator Waters yesterday introduced a bill into the Senate that would allow the federal Government to consider the potentially irreversible impacts of CSG and other mining on water resources when assessing and approving mining activities.
“Australians are getting tired of the federal Government constantly dodging any responsibility for the damage CSG is and may be doing to our groundwater resources, our good agricultural land and our regional communities,” Senator Waters said.
Queensland Greens
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