VICTORIAN farmers say that production-rich farmland should be protected from coal-seam gas extraction. AAP reports that Victorian Farmers’ Federation spokeman Alex Arbuthnot has told a Victorian government inquiry that food security, following the proposed adoption of a national food plan and perhaps a Victorian food plan in 2012, is ‘going to become a major, major issue’. The New South Wales Farmers’ Association believes miners should have a right to refuse miners access to privately-owned land.
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I have family with organic farms In Victoria, from Daylford to Swan Hill
, they are extremely worried about the results of gas seam mining or fracking as has been come to be known. We are at risk of destroying the farmland for hundreds of years with the destructive chemicals that are used in the fracking process for short term gains. Just look at the doco Gassland from USA if you want to see how damaging this type of mining can be. There are environmentally sound sustainable alternatives and we should ban access of minors to private farmers land before its too late. Cheers Tim Roberts