Springvale farmers fight ‘uphill battle’ against coal seam gas on agricultural land

Doug Browne was just 16 years old when his father died, his formal school years ended, and he took over the family farm at Springvale on Queensland’s Western Downs. 

Decades later at almost 79 years of age, he is among the “Springvale Four” — a group of farmers fighting a coal seam gas…