Angry farmers rally against the development of a high pressure gas pipeline. Photo: Brendan Esposito
Mining fertile land for coal-seam gas produces a dilemma: economic growth or food production.
JUST a few hours out of Sydney, you can see first-hand the economic tensions sparked by the resources boom. Not far from the country music capital, Tamworth, lies some of the country's most fertile agricultural land that produces more than a third of our cereal crops, the Liverpool Plains. In direct competition with farmers are coal and gas companies, which are hell-bent on extracting the riches that lie beneath the soil.
The two sides have coexisted in the past, and in many cases still do. But the resources bonanza has made this always delicate relationship a whole lot messier. Read More
WA today.com.au
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