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Marty Silk

Qld farms need gas subsidence protections

Qld farmers need protection from the impact of their land sinking due to gas extraction: report. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Queensland crop farmers need "enhanced" legal protections for their lands and livelihoods against sinking caused by coal seam gas production, a regulator says.

The state's Gasfields Commission has recommended a legal overhaul in a report released on Monday after a probe into the impacts of subsidence on the Condamine plain, west of Toowoomba.

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