A MINING company will use the controversial practice of "fracking" on fertile Victorian farmland.
And the fracking will occur near one of the biggest vegetable farms in one of Victoria's most productive farm districts, where the mining company has been buying up farms.
Fracking involves injecting pressurised fluid, including chemicals, into rocks to fracture them to get at the fossil fuel beneath.
Lakes Oil intends to frack for gas near Seaspray, in Gippsland, next month.
Local pro-farming group Community Over Mining campaign organiser Tracey Anton said the organisation held "serious concerns" about the fracking polluting or draining aquifers.
Weekly Times Now
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