AGFORCE and the National Farmers’ Federation have ramped up their calls for political intervention in a proposed carbon capture project in the Great Artesian Basin – which they say poses a major threat to the water source used for agriculture and town drinking water.
Under a proposed three-year trial, Glencore subsidiary Carbon Transport and Storage Corporation (CTSCo) plans to liquefy CO2 from the Millmerran coal-fired power station and inject up to 330,000 tonnes of it into the Precipice Sandstone, a groundwater formation in the Great Artesian Basin.
Last week, AgForce called for…
