EPA clears AGL and Transpacific over Hunter wastewater shipments

By Peter Hannam
Updated January 22 2015 - 6:08pm, first published 5:45pm
Controversial: A CSG pilot well near Gloucester. Photo: Julie Lyford
Controversial: A CSG pilot well near Gloucester. Photo: Julie Lyford
Caught on camera: A hot pursuit of flowback water revealed what AGL and Transpacific had tried to keep under wraps.  Photo: Katrina Pearson
Caught on camera: A hot pursuit of flowback water revealed what AGL and Transpacific had tried to keep under wraps. Photo: Katrina Pearson
Controversial: A CSG pilot well near Gloucester. Photo: Julie Lyford
Controversial: A CSG pilot well near Gloucester. Photo: Julie Lyford
Controversial: A CSG pilot well near Gloucester. Photo: Julie Lyford
Controversial: A CSG pilot well near Gloucester. Photo: Julie Lyford
Caught on camera: A hot pursuit of flowback water revealed what AGL and Transpacific had tried to keep under wraps.  Photo: Katrina Pearson
Caught on camera: A hot pursuit of flowback water revealed what AGL and Transpacific had tried to keep under wraps. Photo: Katrina Pearson
Controversial: A CSG pilot well near Gloucester. Photo: Julie Lyford
Controversial: A CSG pilot well near Gloucester. Photo: Julie Lyford
Caught on camera: A hot pursuit of flowback water revealed what AGL and Transpacific had tried to keep under wraps.  Photo: Katrina Pearson
Caught on camera: A hot pursuit of flowback water revealed what AGL and Transpacific had tried to keep under wraps. Photo: Katrina Pearson

The NSW Environment Protection Authority has found AGL and its contractor Transpacific Industries were not in breach of pollution licence conditions despite ignoring demands they avoid discharging water from fracked coal seam gas wells into Hunter Water's sewage network.

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