How would mining near Linden O, near all these horticultural farms, impact agriculture? What does it do?

Well, in Linden O... and through the Fingerboard project, the proposal would have a serious impact on the intensive agriculture there.

There's about 2,000 workers harvesting about 200,000 tons of food a year.

It's one of the state's most significant agricultural areas.

Interestingly, the panel that reviewed this over five years ago actually addressed this issue of whether horticulture is more important than mineral sands because that's what's really at stake here.

Should we place a higher value on mineral sands than than horticulture and they said horticultural values in Lindenau are even more constrained than mineral sands.

So they really pointed to the limited amount of intensive agriculture potential and actual production in this state and how important the remaining areas are and it said that they're becoming even more important every year.

What do you think of the government therefore reconsidering this new bid?