Growing wave of opinion ... people attend a rally against coal seam gas mining in Gunnedah on Wednesday. Photo: Paul Mathews
GOVERNMENTS state and federal are in the process of losing the debate over coal seam gas mining. In their haste to approve new projects they have angered the farming lobby. As they bungle the question of coal seam gas, they risk losing the debate about all mining on agricultural land.
The public meeting in Gunnedah on Wednesday exemplifies the growing wave of opinion, led by local landholders but increasingly backed by regional townspeople, environmentalists and the inevitable radio personalities, against coal seam gas mining. The issue is a populist's dream: small landholders against big miners, idyllic rural landscape under threat from poisonous industrial processes.
Sydney Morning Herald
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