Saturday, August 20

Greens Bill to Limit Coal Seam Access

Groundswell: The coal seam gas industry is on the nose for landowners. Picture: Jeff Camden Source: The Courier-Mail

THE Greens will introduce a Bill into federal parliament next week to force coal seam gas companies to get written approval from landowners before they can enter their land.   
Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters said in Sydney today that landowners should have the right to say no.

Senator Waters said it beggared belief that farmers could not say no to mining companies who wanted to access their land.

There needed to be a moratorium until the full impacts of coal seam gas mining were understood, she said.  Read More

The Daily Telegraph

No comments:

Post a Comment