The state government announced on Tuesday it would lift a moratorium on gas fracking in the Kimberley, Pilbara and Mid West of Western Australia on the grounds that the risks to people and environment were manageable and that it could not turn its back on industry.
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| A protest in Broome on Monday. |
The Premier said the moratorium would only be lifted on existing petroleum titles, that landowners and traditional owners would get veto rights, and royalties would go into a fund for renewable energy.
Read the story by Emma Young and Nathan Hondros from WAToday - “Protest movement swells as Premier green-lights fracking.”
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