~ still can't get over this requirement:"The company is still...

~ still can't get over this requirement:

"The company is still required to satisfactorily investigate the source, cause and extent of groundwater contamination resulting from its operations at Kingaroy and to provide a report on this investigation to the department."

in the archives of "serpent, weasel clauses", this one has to rank right up there with the finest.

wot do they really expect LW and team to do to satisfy this little pearl???

a) drill the countryside out 'till it vaguely resembles a chunk of swiss cheese.

b) don wet suits and test kits, enter the aquifer and probably surface under a sump leaking tractor in some local barn, where they will be promptly be picked up and charged with trespassing.

c) other.

and who said 'life was fair'.
more like 'fair game' IOHO, eh?