A decade-long ban on hydraulic fracturing — better known as fracking — in South Australia's Limestone Coast region looks set to be enshrined in law.
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| Anti-fracking protesters outside Parliament House with Greens MLC Mark Parnell, Liberal MP Nick McBride and independent MP Troy Bell. |
The State Government has backflipped on its opposition to legislating a moratorium, and will support a bill put forward by Mt Gambier independent MP Troy Bell, a former Liberal.
"It's not that the South-East is against mining or gas extraction, it's this technology, in that location over limestone where there's aquifers that the entire region relies on."
Read the story from ABC News by Tom Fedorowytch -“South-East fracking ban set to be legislated by South Australian Government”.
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