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Glenda Pickersgill
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 Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:15 pm Post subject: Heraldsun 22/7/11 Ban on CSG carcinogens a myth says Greens |
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/ban-on-csg-carcinogens-a-myth-says-greens-senator-larissa-waters/story-e6frf7ko-1226099619048
| Quote: | Ban on CSG carcinogens a myth says Greens Senator Larissa Waters
From: AAP
July 22, 2011 10:17AM
THERE'S nothing to stop coal seam gas companies using cancer-causing chemicals in Queensland, Greens Senator Larissa Waters says.
Senator Waters, who is an environmental lawyer, says the state's ban on a group of chemicals known as BTEX has not commenced despite laws being passed last October.
She said the Queensland government had not requested the BTEX ban be "proclaimed into force by the governor", which was required for a law to take effect.
"The ban on BTEX hasn't commenced," she told AAP.
"The state government is claiming it has dealt with this toxic problem but in reality CSG miners are still permitted to use cancer-causing BTEX.
"The government is claiming the kudos and high moral ground of banning BTEX when it hasn't even taken effect."
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She said it meant CSG companies were free to use BTEX in fracking fluids.
Fracking is the injection of water, sand and chemicals at high velocity to crack the coal seams and release the gas.
But a spokesman for Queensland Mines Minister Stirling Hinchliffe said the ban had come into effect, and it didn't require the Governor's proclamation.
Farmers opposed to the coal seam gas industry fear toxic chemicals used in the extraction process could leak into underground water stores and contaminate their bores.
A report by a group of medical experts, including 1996 Nobel Prize winner for medicine Professor Peter Doherty, recently submitted to a Senate inquiry, said BTEX chemicals cause cancer and can harm unborn babies.
CSG companies in Queensland have previously said they do not use BTEX despite it being used in other countries, including the United States.
Senator Waters is one of six senators on a committee looking into the impacts of CSG on groundwater, land and farmers. |
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