A meeting is underway between the state Energy and Resources Minister, Chris Hartcher, and an anti-coal seam gas (CSG) group from Gurley, near Moree.
The chairwoman of the Bellata-Gurley Coal Seam Gas Action Group, Penny Blatchford, has been given 45 minutes with Mr Hartcher in Sydney today.
The main topic of discussion is Petroleum Exploration Licence 470, operated by Leichhardt Resources.
Ms Blatchford says she will be telling the Minister why the recent flood event makes it critical the licence not be renewed beyond April 2012.
"What we want to explain to him is contaminated water from the CSG working will flow either across fields where people are farming or they will run into the Gurley Creek, which is part of the Murray-Darling Basin," she said.
"It'll cross the Newell Highway and flow through to the fields to the people who are irrigating out west."
ABC News
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