FARMERS are warning that plans to drill for coal seam gas beneath the nation's prime food bowl will end agriculture as we know it...
Farmers say gas production companies use chemicals that can poison soil and water; their extraction techniques may destroy precious aquifers and the above-ground maze of infrastructure they build is an obstacle to farming...
... one of the nation's largest gas producers is already drilling on pastoral properties in the Liverpool Plains in a quest for new energy sources encouraged by the NSW government...
Mr Barry and Mr Hunter, who live near ... Tamworth, have paid for a DVD to be released on the internet within a fortnight... the DVD, Utter Madness: How the government is prepared to destroy the most productive farming land in Australia.
"It beggars belief the government would even consider allowing this unless it didn't know what is going to happen with methane gas mining," ...
File under: utter madness.
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