Dancers wave Lock the Gate signs at the Rock the Gate anti-coal seam gas concert in Lismore ( - ABC North Coast)
North coast councils have received legal advice on their powers to reject coal seam gas mining.
A legal report on coal seam gas activity shows local councils may have more rights than was first thought.
The advice was commissioned by the seven member councils of NOROC.
It was received more than two months ago, but only made public this week.
The Lismore Mayor, Jenny Dowell, says it shows coal seam gas companies may be denied permission to use council-owned roads.
"And the grounds for that refusal... is the definition of improvement," she said.
ABC North Coast NSW
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