Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for her question. The decision by the Commonwealth to approve the Sugarloaf pipeline was taken on the basis that there would be no significant impacts on matters of national environmental significance and that there would be no allocations from water which was identified as being allocated for the environment, including the Living Murray system and Water for Rivers. Those conditions were made quite clear by me—

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