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Guardian: The federal government has waived the need for a full environmental impact study into the dumping of dredging spoil onto sensitive wetlands under the plan to expand the Abbot Point coal port in Queensland.
The federal environment minister, Greg Hunt, has agreed to a request by Queensland’s deputy premier, Jeff Seeney, to assess the controversial project using only paperwork from a discredited original plan to dump spoil in Great Barrier Reef waters.
The Australian Greens and environmental groups......
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Australia: Abbot Point: study on dumping spoil in wetlands not required, Hunt says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 29th, 2014
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