The Liberal National Party has vowed to provide farmers the "protection" they need against the burgeoning coal seam gas (CSG) industry in Queensland.
The party's leader Campbell Newman promised on Saturday to fix what he sees as an imbalance between farmers' and miners' rights.
He also pledged to ban open cut coal mining in prime agricultural land in the Darling Downs, west of Brisbane, and the central Queensland's grain growing region, known as the Golden Triangle. Read More
Sydney Morning Herald
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