Police block off the road at Talga Lane on the Newell Highway at Croppa Creek after Tuesday's fatal shooting. Photo: Cady Anderson, Moree Champion

It was a storm that had been brewing for years, and many feared it would one day end in violence.

Tragically for Glen Turner, that day came on Tuesday when tensions over illegal vegetation clearing in north-west NSW allegedly came to a devastating head.

The 51 year-old Environment and Heritage compliance officer, a loving father-of-two from Tamworth, was allegedly shot in the back as he served a notice on 79 year-old farmer Ian Turnbull for illegally clearing vegetation on his Croppa Creek property, 55 kilometres north of Moree.

Glendon Turner was shot dead on a property near Moree. Photo: Supplied

Mr Turner and a colleague arrived around 5.40pm. They informed Mr Turnbull there would be a formal inspection the next day but, as they left the property, Mr Turnbull allegedly fired his rifle several times, one shot hitting Mr Turner in the back.

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Mr Turnbull was arrested five hours later after a stand-off on a neighbouring family property. He appeared emotional when he was refused bail in Moree Local Court on Wednesday, charged with murder.

In 2010, talkback host Alan Jones made an ominous prediction regarding the growing stoush between NSW farmers, who were defending their right to remove vegetation on their own property, and environmentalists, who believed significant clearing was doing irreversible damage.

Croppa Creek.

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State Labor's Luke Foley has launched a stinging attack on the Nationals. Photo: Dean Osland

NSW Labor environment spokesman Luke Foley has branded senior Nationals, including Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner and federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce, "deranged" over their response to the killing of a government employee by a farmer involved in a land-clearing dispute.

Mr Foley said the comments sought to "justify" or "explain away" the alleged shooting murder of environment compliance officer Glen Turner on Tuesday and were of "the same mindset that led to right-wing American extremists committing the Oklahoma bombing".

"For politicians as senior as the Deputy Premier of the state and the federal Agriculture Ministerto endorse rage against land-clearing laws is a betrayal of their offices," Mr Foley said.

"Are some of Australia's conservatives now so angry and deranged that they can explain way or 'understand' armed attacks on government employees?

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"Murder should be condemned in all circumstances," Mr Foley said.

"Surely all mainstream politicians in Australia should unequivocally condemn taking up arms against one's government."

NSW Coffs Harbour MP Andrew Fraser, also a member of the Nationals, was quoted on Friday as describing the alleged murder of Mr Turner by farmer Ian Turnbull at Croppa Creek, north of Moree, as "a tragic event that I think has been brought about by bad legislation".

Mr Stoner, who is leader of the NSW Nationals, was quoted in the same newspaper article as stating that NSW land clearing laws "have been a sore point in farming communities since they were introduced by a Labor-Greens alliance in 2003".

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MEMBER for New England Barnaby Joyce has called for the state government to repeal the legislation at the centre of a long-running land clearing dispute that took a deadly twist this week.

MEMBER for New England Barnaby Joyce has called for the state government to repeal the legislation at thecentre of a long-running land clearing dispute that took a deadly twist this week.

Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce

Tamworth man Glen Turner, 51, a compliance officer with the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, was carrying out his duties at a Croppa Creek property on Tuesday night when he was fatally shot.

Croppa Creek resident Ian Robert Turnbull, 79, has been charged with murder.

Mr Joyce, also the federal Minister for Agriculture, said he could understand why, in the wake of Tuesdays tragedy, many had questioned the part played by controversial native vegetation laws, which have been described by the NSW Farmers Association as one of the biggest impediments to sustainable food and fibre production in NSW.

They couldnt be used though to condone an act of violence.

Of course, nothing is a reason, ever, for shooting a man with a wife and kids. You can never make excuses for something like this, no matter what, Mr Joyce said.

(These officers) werent the architects of this law, the government was. This man was just doing his job.

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The Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) is planning to sell assets worth nearly Rs 260 crore, which will enable it to buy a stake in a clearing corporation over the next six months.

The exchange has been in touch with Indian Clearing Corporation Limited (ICCL), the Clearing Corporation of BSE, and MCX SX Clearing Corporation to formalise an agreement, according to sources. CSE needs to either tie-up with a clearing corporation or pick up a stake in it clearing corporation to meet the norms for regional stock exchnages set by the market regulator.

CSE has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) to sell nearly three acres land parcel owned by it on E M Bypass. According B Madhav Reddy, Managing Director and CEO of CSE, the exchange is expecting at least Rs 260 crore from the sale.

In 2012, Sebi brought out new norms for RSEs, under which, they need to own a trading platform, with an annual trading of not less than than Rs 1,000 crore, to stay afloat. This apart, the net worth of the exchange should not be less than Rs 100 crore, said the norms. CSE was the only RSE to conform to the norms on trading platform and net worth, which impelled other RSEs to seek a tie-up with CSE. The exchange has its own trading platform called C-Star.However, CSE failed to meet the criterion set by the regulator of a tie-up with a recognized clearing corporation.Earlier, CSE had formalised a deal with ICCL, the Clearing Corporation of BSE, which settles the trades of both BSE, to execute trades on C-Star. However, Sebi raised objections to the deal.

The other option for CSE was to have its own clearing corporation, but this required a corpus of Rs 300 crore. The Sebi deadline to meet the new norms for RSE expired on May 30th.Thus, in April 2013, CSE had to suspend trading as it failed to comply with the Stock Exchanges and Clearing Corporations) Regulations, 2012.At present, at CSE, the daily turnover at BSE and NSE platforms is close to Rs 300 crore. This apart, its annual turnover in C Star was close to Rs 1000 crore before April 2013. At present, there are close to 200 active brokers in CSE.Meanwhile, CSE has already signed agreements with fours regional exchanges-the Madhya Pradesh Stock Exchange, OTC Exchange Of India (OTCEI) , Ludhiana and Bangalore Stock Exchanges to take over their operations.

Under the consolidation plan with Madhya Pradesh Stock Exchange, CSE plans to absorb its brokers, companies and employees and of the exchange. In addition, CSE also plans to open an office at Indore. In case of OTCEI, it plans to acquire its companies and members. For Lundiana and Bangalore Stock Exchanges, the plan involves migration of their listed companies to CSE. CSE was on the verge of extinction after being hit by one of the biggest scams in the history of stock markets in 2001. However, the exchange got a fresh lease of life following its demutualisation in 2007, when several entities, including BSE, picked up stakes in it.

Apart from BSE, there are 30 investors at CSE, including West Bengal Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation and several Kolkata-based private companies. CSE is the only regional exchange to have its own trading platform, the C-Star.

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COLUMBIA Developers clearing land in Columbia will now be required to use devices known as air curtain destructors when performing open burns.

The Columbia City Council voted unanimously Monday evening to withdraw proposed changes to the city's open burning ordinance. In place of the ordinance changes, the Columbia Fire Department will adopt an internal policy requiring an air curtain destructor be used on any open burn that calls for a Missouri Department of Natural Resources permit.

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Air curtain destructors are placed over an open burn and function similar to large exhaust hoods. Vacuums in the air curtain inhale and filter the smoke and release cleaner emissions in the air.

A report issued by the Columbia Fire Department at the July 7 council meeting outlined suggested changes toCity Council bill 101-14, which would place increased restrictions on open burning on development sites.

The report recommended maintaining the current definition of open burning and requiring a permit for any fire with a fuel area of larger than 3 feet wide and 2 feet high. Fires smaller than this are considered recreational fires. The responsibility for inspecting and permitting open burns would remain with the Fire Department.

The Fire Department report also recommended requiring the use of an air curtain destructor for any open burn performed to remove the vegetative waste from clearing an area of 1 acre or greater.

Air curtain destructors will be required for open burns performed within 200 yards of the nearest inhabited dwelling for land-clearing operations smaller than 1 acre.

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