IT is quite possible to be alarmed at the rapid expansion of mining and exploration into Australia's food production basins and high-population areas without being anti-growth or even anti-fossil fuels.
The heightening tensions from central Queensland to rural Victoria over the rush for coal-seam gas and new coalmines are about issues much closer to home.
These are about the rights of property owners to occupy and enjoy their land and the nation's long-term interests in where it gets its food.
Certainly this is a NIMBY (not in my backyard) dispute. Read More & Watch
The Australian
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