IF adopted, the recommendations of the Senate committee report into coal-seam gas represent a welcome return to the principle of safeguarding what is arguably the nation's most precious natural resource, the Great Artesian Basin.
As inconvenient as this may be, CSG companies and over-eager state governments have no one to blame but themselves.
On the ground, public trust has been poisoned by a sense of entitlement among some gas companies and an unseemly haste in state governments blinded by the prospect of royalty income.
The Senate report has identified the issues that have been burning away at rural communities, which have often felt the odds stacked against them.
The Australian
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