THE Nationals have defended voting against a Greens Bill that aims to give farmers protection over mining.
The move comes as opposition to coal-seam gas mining in Colac grows and independent MP Tony Windsor introduces legislation to allow the Federal Government to ban mining where it could hurt aquifers.
The Greens' Landholders Right to Refuse (Coal Seam Gas) Bill would have allowed farmers to bar mining companies from entering their properties, but the Government and Coalition voted it down.
They had blocked a Green bid for a moratorium on coal-seam gas the previous week.
Greens environment spokeswoman Larissa Waters said "the old parties" had "spoken at length about their intention to deny farmers any rights to protect their prime agricultural land from coal-seam gas".
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