Geologist Ian Plimer has slammed the environmental branch of government for their consideration of Glencore’s plan.

Glencore plan to inject liquefied Carbon Dioxide into Australia’s largest groundwater basin – The Great Artesian Basin.

There are concerns about the effects on Australia’s major freshwater source.

“No one dawned on the fact that we could have a massive phreatic explosion of carbon dioxide,” Mr Plimer told Sky News Australia.

“What is Tanya Plibersek’s department doing?

“Why do we have so many bureaucrats not looking at the bleeding obvious?”