Legal action to block a coal seam gas project near Gloucester wrapped up in the Land and Environment Court yesterday.
The Gloucester Stroud Preservation Alliance project officer Gary Smith says the drilling and fracking process has not been adequately assessed.
He says the court reserved its judgment and is unlikely to hand down a decision before next year.
"If we win AGL can still go back and reassess their development and do the things that we claim they didn't," he said.
"If we lose it's just going to have to be the tightest policing that we can do of the project."
Mr Smith says he is pleased with how the hearing went.
"It's a developing area of law, it's not a clear-cut issue one way or the other," he said.
"It involves a precautionary principal in other areas of environmental law.
"So it's not clear-cut, it's a developing area of law. We're optimistic and we just have to wait and hear what the decision is."
ABC 1233 Newcastle
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