CSG, mines power 'meets expectations'

By Lenore Taylor
Updated March 12 2013 - 7:19pm, first published 6:15pm
Independent MP Tony Windsor has been calling on the government to extend federal powers to cover potential impacts of CSG. Photo: Andrew Meares
Independent MP Tony Windsor has been calling on the government to extend federal powers to cover potential impacts of CSG. Photo: Andrew Meares

New powers to stop coal seam gas wells and big coal mines that harm the water supply would simply give the federal government the clout the public assumed it already had, Environment Minister Tony Burke said on Tuesday.

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