SIMMERING tensions over the coal seam gas beneath the state's farming country boiled over at dawn yesterday, when farmers parked heavy machinery across a planned drilling site on the Liverpool Plains, south of Gunnedah.
A group of local farmers slept overnight to guard the gates of a property where the resources company Santos had planned to drill an exploratory gas well today.
Group members said the blockade would go on for ''as long as it takes'' to stop drilling in the area, which they said could harm the underground aquifers that made the region the nation's most productive food bowl.
Sydney Morning Herald
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