Farmers and gas companies have long fought over CSG and fracking but National Farmers Federation wants energy solution

A row is brewing among farmers over the Federal Government's push to get more gas exploration.

Coal seam gas wells in an area south
of Chinchilla in southern Qld, near
the Tara residential estate in 2010.

Many farmers have fought CSG development on their land for decades, and in Victoria and the Northern Territory, farm groups have lobbied hard for moratoriums on fracking.

But the peak national lobby group, the National Farmers Federation has other ideas and has called for a national summit on reducing energy costs.

Read the ABC story - “Farmers and gas companies have long fought over CSG and fracking but National Farmers Federation wants energy solution.”