DURING last week's gathering at the Cecil Plains public hall on Wednesday, local landholder Stuart Armitage called on any farmer satisfied with the answers Arrow Energy was providing - and would allow the company onto their farm - to put their hand in the air.
The room fell silent.
It was a stark indication Cecil Plains landholders are still frustrated with the development of the coal seam gas (CSG) industry across their black soil country.
One landholder told Queensland Country Life there was still a "lack of faith" that the gas companies could manage the potential impacts of CSG.
Cecil Plains, west of Toowoomba, has become a high-profile battleground in the agriculture versus mining debate, where kilometres of crops are grown along the fertile landscape.
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Even graziers with their own CSG industry woes in the Western Queensland cattle country have repeatedly raised their own reluctance to believe gas wells and cotton crops can co-exist on the irrigated farmland surrounding Cecil Plains.
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