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Australia: Shale mining under Great Barrier Reef 'likely to be banned'

2013-04-25 06:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Mining shale oil under the Great Barrier Reef is likely to be banned by Australia's federal Labor government as tensions rise over the environmental impact of the booming oil and gas industry on the coastline beside the reef. In February, the conservative Queensland state government lifted a moratorium on the shale oil industry in most places along the coast to allow companies to assess whether the US shale oil boom could be replicated in Australia. Power firm Queensland Energy Resources is...

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