Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question without notice is to the Minister representing the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities and it is about the minister for the environment’s go-ahead for two giant coal seam gas projects in Queensland at close of business last Friday. Who will monitor the 300 conditions placed by the environment minister on these projects? Will it be from his office or somebody else’s? What will be the cost of that monitoring and who will pay for it? What will be the penalties for these corporations if they breach those conditions? Finally, what reparations will be made to the farmers whose productive land is going to be compromised by thousands of drill holes in their farmland from these gas extraction projects?