Reef chief recommends port rethink - Great Barrier Grief (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Reef chief recommends port rethink - Great Barrier Grief (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Queensland's iconic Great Barrier Reef could be put at risk if authorities do not rethink plans to allow massive expansion works at ports along the Queensland coast, an expert says.

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority chairman Russell Reichelt has also told ABC TV's Four Corners he warned the Federal Government that huge dredging operations aimed at servicing Queensland's growing coal seam gas industry posed an unacceptable risk to marine life on the reef.