Government dilutes National Park fracking protection

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Coalition moves to scrap several key opposition amendments to fracking regulations that it had previously been forced to accept

The government yesterday succeeded in its effort to water down fracking regulations it had previously accepted, passing a series of amendments to the Infrastructure Bill that overturn a number of previous...

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