Besieged ... James Barlow, who wants guarantees his farm will not be touched by miners, oversees aerial dressing from a paddock of his property, which is sandwiched between two large coalmining sites.
CONSERVATION areas, prime farming land and horse breeding and winery regions will remain open to coal seam gas and coalmining under a confidential draft plan prepared for the NSW government to manage land use.
Proposed guidelines for determining where and how mining may occur, obtained by the Herald, also reveal that ''highly sensitive habitats'' could be mined as long as ''offsets'' of similar land are provided by a mining company.
The briefing document has been presented to a special reference group convened by the Minister for Planning, Brad Hazzard.
Sydney Morning Herald
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