Central Queensland cotton growers are concerned about plans for the development of a coal mine below their irrigated paddocks.
Stanmore Coal's Tennyson project is still in early exploration stages but the company's tenement covers an area of 131 square kilometres adjacent to the town of Emerald.
Cotton Australia's Michael Murray says that means it includes the Emerald irrigation area which produces hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cotton each year.
He says a meeting with Stanmore officials last night has led him to the conclusion that current Queensland Government strategic cropping land laws wouldn't stop the mine.
ABC Rural
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