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WA's whopping new frac fines 

THE Western Australian government will massively increase penalties around environmental non-compliance as part of its ongoing implementation of recommendations from the 2018 scientific inquiry into fraccing, and will also extend the rule changes to all petroleum exploration in the state. 

WA's whopping new frac fines 

It has said it is "neither practical nor logical" to limit penalties to fraccing alone.    It proposes changes to the Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources Act 1967 in a bill that will go out for...

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