Coal seam gas report on Santos site kept secret by Environment Protection Agency

By Natalie O'Brien
Updated November 23 2014 - 2:08am, first published 1:44am
A Santos employee on the bank of a waste water pond in western NSW. Photo: Rob Homer
A Santos employee on the bank of a waste water pond in western NSW. Photo: Rob Homer

Questionable safety procedures, leaking ponds, inadequate monitoring and unreliable analytical methods are just some of the findings about coal seam gas activities at Santos sites in a report the Environment Protection Authority has tried to keep secret.

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