THIS time it's different. Miners have clashed with farmers and locals over the years, but never like this.
The battle between coal-seam gas and coal versus the rest has grabbed the national headlines and now even drawn Tony Abbott into the mess.
The potential rewards of extracting the gas and coal are greater than ever before and it seems to many that the price will be much of Australia's prime farmland, and all because of an immutable geological fact. All that energy wealth is under all that prized soil.
Our golden mining days were at places like Broken Hill, Mt Isa, the Pilbara and the remote west coast of Tasmania where there were few people, fewer farms and precious little above ground that anyone valued. Today, however, the greatest prize awaits under land that grows vegetables for the cities, wheat for export or animals for meat. Read More
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