The body representing Australia’s upstream industry has hit out at the South Australian opposition government’s proposal for a 10-year moratorium on fracking in the state’s south-east.
Opposition leader Steven Marshall said the South Australian Liberal party would bring in the ban if wins the 2018 state election, claiming it would protect jobs in the state’s agricultural region.
“It makes no sense to put this highly productive region and South Australia's enviable clean and green reputation at risk by opening up some of our best farming land to fracking,” he said.
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