TheAustralian Petroleum, Production & Exploration Association(APPEA) claims the Greens were “misleading” the public andundermining the country's natural gas industry.
APPEA's chief operating officer western region, Stedman Ellis, singled outGreens West Australian MLC, Robin Chapple, who he said was “clearlyignoring the facts” with his latest call to ban fracking in thestate.
Ellisclaims Chapple was wrong to link fracking in WA with a recentincident on the country's east coast in New South Wales where a leakfrom a decommissioned containment pond had resulted in slightlyelevated levels of trace elements in localised groundwater.