Reading RoomMapping the battlefield of agriculture v mining: the release of the new strategic regional land use policy [...]
March 2012
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The NSW Government this month released a new ‘gateway process’ for mining and coal seam gas projects in close proximity to strategic agricultural lands. This new policy is designed to protect strategic agricultural land in NSW from the potential impacts of mining and coal seam gas projects and to provide greater certainty to proponents of projects. However, the process has already been met with a mixed response.