Treated wastewater still proposed for the Dawson River, home to the white-throated snapping turtle
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Santos has ditched plans to release untreated coal seam gas wastewater into a Queensland river that provides critical habitat to two species of threatened “bum-breathing” turtles.
But the oil and gas company is still seeking approval to release “reverse osmosis treated” CSG wastewater into the Dawson River – a practice that an independent scientific committee found could still affect the critically endangered white-throated snapping turtle and the vulnerable Fitzroy River turtle.