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CSG the winner in Murray plan: Greens

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The Australian Greens say the coal seam gas (CSG) industry is set to secure millions of litres of groundwater from the Murray-Darling Basin at the expense of the environment.

The plan, released on Monday, proposes to cut water use by 2750 gigalitres a year, short of the 3000 to 4000 gigalitres originally suggested.

Greens Senator Larissa Waters says the plan appears to have doubled groundwater allocations to the CSG industry, and called on Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke to explain.

"The environment minister has some questions to answer about how much of that groundwater is earmarked for coal seam gas, and what are the parameters that are going to be put on that use to make sure that coal seam gas isn't going to stuff up the entire Murray Darling Basin system," she told reporters in Brisbane.

Senator Waters said a three-year CSIRO study recommended a 10 per cent cut to groundwater allocations from the basin.

 

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