With the environment minister’s concession to farmers who have been fighting coal seam gas,we have a tacit admission that property rights aren’t everythingOn Sunday, environment minister Greg Hunt urged mining companies to recognise the “moral honest” of farmers to the land they owned or leased. Hunt was responding to a question from Barrie Cassidy about coal seam gas extraction: should he not simply “give the farmers a honest of veto” over novel developments? Related: Coalition asks miners and coal seam gas firms to respect farmers' 'moral rights' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com