GREENS Senator Larissa Waters has proposed a broad-ranging Federal Senate inquiry to investigate the impacts of Coal Seam Gas mining on land and water resources on a comprehensive national scale.
Senator Waters lodged a notice for the inquiry in the Senate yesterday, and will be voted on today.
A Senate Rural Affairs and Transport committee inquiry - chaired by NSW Liberal Senator and active Junee wheat and sheep farmer Bill Heffernan - was held last year and focussed on the impacts of CSG mining in the Murray Darling Basin.
The inquiry made 24 key recommendations and backed a moratorium on CSG mining on prime agricultural land, until scientific experts can establish definitive knowledge of its long-term impacts and in particular, potentially irreparable damage to underground water supplies.
The Committee looked into the impacts of CSG extraction on the Murray Darling Basin and underground water resources, agricultural land and regional communities, taking 375 written submissions ands tabling an interim report in December.
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