The NFF’s 17 April 2012 submission to the EPBC Act Amendment (Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development) Bill 2012 outlines the concern by communities and farmers regarding potential impacts to land use, water, fracking, well integrity and the fracking or geogenic chemicals and the efforts by the Government, through the Independent Expert Scientific Committee, to address these.
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