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NT moves to clarify offshore oil, gas industry’s nuclear waste obligations

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Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia
 
ENVIRONMENT
The Northern Territory has passed the Nuclear Waste Transport Storage and Disposal (Prohibition) Amendment Bill, providing the offshore oil and gas industry with a blueprint of their obligations around the management of nuclear waste. The nuclear waste covered by the Bill included naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORMs) that could be incidentally generated from offshore oil and gas activities and subsequently brought into the Northern Territory, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Eva Lawler said.
 
 
 
 
 

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