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Condamine farmer Shawn Fresser fears coal seam gas mining under his property could cost him millions

Shawn Fresser is worried he won't have access to compensation if his farm is impacted by CSG wells. (ABC Rural: Alys Marshall)

Year in, year out, Shawn Fresser's 1,200-hectare farm near Dalby, 200 kilometres west of Brisbane, produces the equivalent of about 1.5 million pairs of jeans, 6.8 million loaves of bread and 2.5 million kilograms of corn chips.

He grows cotton, legumes and grain on the fertile soil of the Condamine flood plain. Land here is worth more than twice the national agricultural average and is classified by the Queensland government as prime agricultural area.

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