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Marty Silk

Coal seam gas waste plan worries farmers and activists

Regulators have accepted an industry plan to store waste salt from coal seam gas in lined landfill. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

Farmers and activists have slammed a decision allowing waste salt from coal seam gas extraction to be buried at lined landfill sites in Queensland, saying it risks contaminating the Murray-Darling river system.

The state's action plan to manage highly salty waste brine was released last week, 26 years after the first CSG project began in the Bowen Basin and after a decade of rapid expansion.

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