He said the criteria for SCL protection from CSG developments were focused on soils and did not give any consideration to the possible impacts of CSG production on the state's water resources, which played a critical role in its food and fibre production
THE cotton industry has hit out at the exemptions available to miners and coal seam gas companies in the State Government's new Strategic Cropping Land Bill.
Cotton Australia's Queensland policy manager Michael Murray said the new legislation was "too narrowly focused, with too many exemptions and transitional arrangements, for it to have any real impact or offer any significant protection for high-value agricultural land".
"The government has the right general idea but this legislation won't save our prime farmland unless the scope is widened to consider the impact on water resources from coal seam gas developments, along with the adverse potential from underground mine subsidence," he said.
Central Qld News
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