Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate:

(a) notes that:

  (i) Leigh Creek Energy has produced its first syngas using underground coal gasification (UCG), and

  (ii) UCG was banned in 2016 in Queensland after the Linc Energy disaster in Chinchilla, which was declared Queensland's worst environmental disaster;

(b) further notes that UCG has been responsible for incidents of poisoning the water table and contaminating soil and air, and has been linked to an increase in cancers, including lung and breast cancers; and

(c) calls on the Federal Government to urgently intervene and stop the Leigh Creek project from progressing any further and ban UCG across the country.