NFF - don’t repeat CSG failings when building inland rail

Colin Bettles
Updated May 10 2017 - 7:17am, first published 5:00am
NFF: don’t repeat CSG failings when building inland rail
NFF: don’t repeat CSG failings when building inland rail

NATIONAL Farmers Federation (NFF) president Fiona Simson has warned the federal government must heed the hard lessons of failed community consultation from the early days of Coal Seam Gas (CSG) mining, when drilling down into the nitty gritty details of the inland rail’s construction and buying out existing farmland.

Colin Bettles

Colin Bettles

Canberra Bureau Chief

Has been the Canberra Bureau Chief for Fairfax Agricultural Media since 2010 - survived the hung parliament - former media manager at Western Australian Cricket Association now covering national agricultural and rural issues in federal politics.

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