"I disagree with this view. The Director-General’s contention (that there was no failure to address relevant matters and no unreasonableness because the ultimate problem with the Kingaroy project was infrastructure failure) simply misses the point. My concerns are with the method of determining conditions, particularly for novel or emerging technologies with potentially high or uncertain risks. The explanation that the project failed due to infrastructure failure does not excuse an inadequate assessment and conditioning process. My concern is that no one with expertise in groundwater science had input into the setting of the conditions for the environmental authority in a situation where several agency officers, including the officer responsible for conducting the assessment and preparing the conditions, believed it was necessary to obtain that input. I note that the department has already moved to address a lack of expertise by employing a groundwater contamination expert."
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