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Victoria locks the gate

VICTORIA's Labor government has decided to lock the gates on fraccing and unconventional gas extraction, becoming the first Australian state to enact a permanent ban, and will extend the moratorium on the exploration and development of conventional onshore gas until 2020.

Haydn Black

The decision follows the imposition on strict rules in New South Wales and the election of a Labor government in the Northern Territory which has announced it is starting down a similar path, beginning...

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