unlikely restrictions be eased, most likely tightened if Labor &...

unlikely restrictions be eased, most likely tightened if Labor & Greens form government viz extract in Courier Mail today by Greens senator: .
She said she would move to have the activity of coal seam gasification become a trigger for federal environmental laws.

This would mean the federal minister would be compelled to consider the "full range of impacts when a project comes to him for approval - not just those threatened species impacts but the impacts on groundwater and the potential impact on farmland'', Ms Waters said.

She said the Greens would seek further changes so the minister would be precluded from approving a project which would have a long-term effect on groundwater, agricultural land or release large amounts of methane, until appropriate environmental protections are in place.

Ms Waters, who will be the first Greens senator from Queensland, said it was necessary to move through federal law because the Bligh Government has been "very negligent'' in its response to the mining boom and strategic