Calls for Federal Carbon Capture Ban After Qld Decision

A view of the Murray River at Wentworth along the border of New South Wales and Victoria in Australia on Feb. 21, 2007. Robert Cianflone/Getty Images

A landmark decision to protect one of the world’s largest underground freshwater reservoirs has prompted calls for a federal carbon capture storage ban.

Queensland Premier Steven Miles said he would ban carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the Great Artesian Basin, a water source for 180,000 inland people with an estimated 65 million gigalitres.