Guardian: Energy companies Santos and AGL have signed an agreement with farmers in NSW that will allow landholders to refuse coal seam gas activities on their properties.
The deal will allow a farmer to say no to coal seam gas and bar entry to gas companies if permission is explicitly refused.
The agreement, the first of its kind between gas firms and landholders, also seems to indirectly reference environmental protesters by condemning bullying, harassment and intimidation of farmers who have agreed...