THE South Australian Labor government has backed the rights of coal-seam gas miners to access private land to explore and extract deposits, saying the gas has an "increasingly important role in our energy security".
But South Australian Mining Minister Tom Koutsantonis said yesterday the state did not face the same political pressures as Queensland and NSW as it had adopted a co-operative approach to potential disputes between miners and landholders.
Although most of Australia's coal-seam gas is in NSW and Queensland, South Australia has vast potential areas for exploration in the far north of the state.
Tony Abbott on Friday backed the right of farmers to deny miners access to their land, intensifying pressure on the states to curb mining that encroaches on communities and food production. Read More
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