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Ethan James

Major seismic test plan dropped after community action

The seismic blast zones included areas off King Island. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

Plans for seismic testing to find gas reserves in Bass Strait across an area half the size of Tasmania have been withdrawn after community and environmentalist campaigns.

But the federal government has earned the ire of the Greens for approving new gas production licences in the same area a day later.

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