David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

With respect to Senator Milne’s advisory panel, the fundamental driver of risk is leakage. Leakage is a matter of expert evaluation of the geophysical environment and of the integrity of the cap structure that we are dealing with. If that is done well and there is no leakage, there is no problem. That is why the advisory panel is not talking about the wider environmental issue; it is talking about the structure and the interrelationship of accessing the structure with other tenement holders.