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New push to bring Queensland’s lagging emissions targets into line with other states

Environmental advocates urge state to ‘do better than 30% by 2030’, and propose doubling of current targets

The Guardian - AU

Outback Queensland council welcomes news of new Eromanga oil and gas exploration permits

Pure Energy gets the green light for a new gas exploration project north of Eromanga in outback Queensland.

ABC News

Qld grants second Eyre Basin gas permit

The Queensland government has given another company a permit to look for gas in the remote Lake Eyre Basin while it draws up plans to protect the region.

AAP

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Qld urged to speed up Lake Eyre protection

Activists are calling on the Queensland government to publicly release its assessment of plans to protect the Lake Eyre Basin before Christmas.

AAP

Government urged to reject plan to release CSG wastewater near ‘bum-breathing’ turtle’s Queensland habitat

An independent expert report found Santos’ proposed releases could have ‘major impacts’ in the Dawson River

The Guardian - AU

BHP proposal to extend Queensland coalmine until 2116 ‘delusional’, activists say

Proposed expansion would cover about 4,000 hectares and involve clearing of habitat for the koala, greater glider and other threatened species

The Guardian - AU

Fracking in Lake Eyre the ‘height of folly’, report suggests

Economic analysis suggests any proposal to allow fracking in Queensland basin would not be commercially viable

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Tanya Plibersek declines to fast-track Senex Energy gas project

Tanya Plibersek knocks back a request to exempt an energy project in southern Queensland from assessment against environmental laws, saying she is "not satisfied" it is in the national interest.

ABC News

Queensland government considers lease extensions at the site of anti-CSG blockade

Arrow Energy’s applications to extend leases discovered by campaigners via report on company website

The Guardian - AU

Desperate holidaymakers travelling hours to queue for new passports

There are huge delays as many put off applying for a new passport during the pandemic

Manchester Evening News

Holidaymakers speak of their desperate wait as they queue for new passports - it's my kids I feel for

'We’ve had a hard time as a family recently and I’m worried we won’t get our holiday. It’s my kids I feel for'

Wales Online

Pressure on Amazon drivers, desperate passport queues and cottage transformed

These are the latest ECHO headlines on Friday, April 29

Liverpool Echo

Desperate holidaymakers travelling hours to queue in Liverpool for new passports

One person waiting for a passport on Old Hall Street said she'd lost sleep over the delays

Liverpool Echo

Qld coal seam gas waste plan criticised

Activists warn a draft Queensland government plan would allow the coal seam gas industry to simply bury waste brine, posing a risk to the environment.

AAP

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The Guardian - AU

Queensland government acknowledges subsidence caused by CSG could affect farmland

Farmers in the Darling Downs say that even minuscule changes to the flat black soil plains could disrupt soil drainage and farming methods

The Guardian - AU

Queensland government rejects coal exploration licence in farmland close to Great Barrier Reef

Fox Resources’ proposed mining development lease refused on public interest grounds

Daily Mirror

Kidnapper invented sick lie to convince girl Cleo Smith, 4, to leave her family's tent

Cleo Smith’s mum has opened up on how her four-year-old daughter was lured away from the family tent at the Blowholes campsite in Western Australia on October 16 last year

The Guardian - AU

Cleo Smith family interview: Nine’s $2m 60 Minutes exclusive fails to top Sunday night TV ratings

60 Minutes interview with parents beaten by Seven News and Married At First Sight, but wins timeslot

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ABC News

Cleo Smith's parents say the four-year-old has suffered from nightmares following her WA abduction

The parents of Cleo Smith tell 60 Minutes their four-year-old girl has suffered from nightmares in the aftermath of her abduction last October.

AAP

Cleo 'blocked out' abduction details: mum

Cleo Smith's mother says she still doesn't know the full story of the four-year-old's abduction from the family campsite in Western Australia.

Daily Mirror

Cleo Smith: All we know about chilling child abduction case of girl missing for 18 days

Cleo Smith was just four years old when she went missing for 18 days after she was snatched from her family camping trip and held in a house just two miles from her family home

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