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South Australia's Liberal opposition is putting investment at risk by calling an inquiry into fracking, oil and gas producer Santos says.
The Liberals will move next week to establish a parliamentary select committee to examine the effects of fracking in the state's south east, saying it will ease concerns about the practice.
But the state Labor government and industry groups have rubbished the proposed inquiry, saying it would put billions of dollars of investment at risk.
Santos' vice-president of Eastern Australia, James Baulderstone, added to the criticism, saying the Liberals were ignoring the company's long track record of safe operations in SA.
"The South Australian gas industry has been built on strong bipartisan political support, which in turn has given investors confidence to invest in this state," he said in a statement on Friday.
"If this inquiry is captured by political opportunists, it could seriously erode that confidence."
While Santos has no direct operations in the south east, the company was concerned at the "wider implications" of the proposed inquiry, Mr Baulderstone said.
The SA Chamber of Mines and Energy said the business community should be alarmed that the Liberals were playing into the hands of "hardcore Green activists".
The Liberals rejected an earlier fracking inquiry proposed by the Greens, saying it was too broad.
Opposition resources spokesman Dan van Holst Pellekaan told AAP the Liberals' inquiry would clear up scaremongering by the environmental lobby.
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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he knew of the misconduct allegations being levelled by two of his MPs against two now-former Liberal Members of Parliament, but he did not go public with the complaints to respect their wishes.
Mulcair said his primary concern was to ensure that the two NDP MPs who were making the accusations got whatever help they needed, and that their wishes were respected.
"Those wishes included a very strong desire to keep this confidential. This was their request and we were not about to override that and make them victims a second time."
The NDP received no prior warning whatsoever from the Liberals that they would go public with the allegations, Mulcair told reporters Thursday that an event in Whitby, Ont.
On Wednesday, Liberals Massimo Pacetti of Montreal and Scott Andrews of Newfoundland were suspended from the Liberal caucus after allegations of what party leader Justin Trudeau called "serious personal misconduct."
Both Pacetti and Andrews deny any wrongdoing.
Trudeau asked the Commons speaker to investigate, saying the days when such incidents were dealt with quietly in Parliament's backrooms are long gone.
Trudeau said he had a duty to act when he was approached with the allegations.
I just know that for someone to come forward to a party leader that is not their own, there is an expectation that there will be consequences, Trudeau told reporters Thursday.
One of the NDP MPs approached Trudeau with allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Pacetti and Andrews on a five-hour bus trip back to Ottawa from Cpl. Nathan Cirillos funeral in Hamilton, Ont., last Tuesday.
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The South Australian Liberal Party has lived up to an election promise by announcing an inquiry into a shale gas industry proposed for the south-east.
The Opposition last month drew criticism for voting against a Greens motion for a parliamentary inquiry after promising to support one prior to the state election in March.
It argued that the Greens motion would affect the entire state and not just the south-east where exploratory drilling and fracking had been taking place on two sites near Penola.
The region was heavily earmarked by the State Government for shale gas extraction - a form of mining that relies entirely on the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking - sparking wide-spread protests from farmers, vignerons, local government and community members concerned about groundwater.
Mount Gambier Liberal MP Tony Bell planned to move a motion for an inquiry in the Lower House next week, where it would require the support of independents Geoff Brock and Martin Hamilton-Smith, a former Liberal, to succeed.
The South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy criticised the Liberals' push, saying it was playing into the hands of a group of "hardcore greens activists".
Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis said the Government would not support the motion and either would the two independents - both of whom held positions in Labor's Cabinet.
But Opposition Leader Steven Marshall said his party's motivation for a parliamentary inquiry was to ease community concern about the issue.
"I don't think there's anything that anybody should fear about this," he said.
"In fact, I think that the companies involved should welcome this because I think it will allow everybody a chance for their information to be put on the table."
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