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Environment
Fraser Barton

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Great artesian basin carbon capture project rejected - What They Never Told You

The Great Artesian Basin is one of the largest underground freshwater reservoirs in the world. (Jason O'BRIEN/AAP PHOTOS)

A controversial plan to inject tonnes of wastewater into Australia's Great Artesian Basin has been rejected amid fears it would cause "irreversible" change.

Mining giant Glencore's CTSCo had planned to capture carbon dioxide from the coal-fired Millmerran power station in southern Queensland, liquefy it and store it 2.3km underground.

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