Regulations on unconventional gas development across Australia would be tightened up if Labor wins the next election.
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| A worker looks over a coal seam gas project in Narrabri. Labor says shale gas projects should be subjected to the same level of environmental scrutiny. |
Labor’s shadow minister for the environment Tony Burke says the party, if elected, will keep the commitment it took to the 2016 election to broaden the “water trigger” to include other forms of unconventional gas extraction. The current water trigger, introduced by the Gillard government in 2013, assesses water resources as a matter of national significance only in relation to coal seam gas and coal mining.
It means that much of the country isn’t covered by the legislation, even though the process used to extract shale and tight gas is similar to that used for coal seam gas mining.
Read the story from The Guardian by Lisa Cox - “Fracking: Labor pledges to tighten regulations to protect water resources.”
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