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Marty Silk

Qld coal seam gas waste plan criticised

Queensland is planning to allow coal seam gas companies to bury waste brine from extraction. (AAP)

The Queensland government is planning to allow coal seam gas companies to bury waste brine from extraction, but activists say it is a "cheap and nasty" option that will come way too late to prevent environmental damage.

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

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