PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull will tour Queensland farms to investigate the impact of coal seam gas wells spreading across properties.

No date has been set for the visit which follows an approach by Senator Glenn Lazarus in the wake of the tragic suicide of Chinchilla cotton and grain grower George Bender earlier last month after a decade-long battle to keep out gas companies.

“Malcolm has advised me that he is looking into availability to undertake the tour with me,” Senator Lazarus said.

“If possible, we will stay at one of the properties directly affected so he can fully appreciate the direct impact on families, their health, businesses, animals and the water.”

Mr Bender’s daughter Helen told The Sunday Mail it would be an important step in pushing for more power for landowners to refuse access to resources firms.

“You have to go out there and see it for yourself. You have to see the destruction. It’s heartbreaking to see what’s happening to our prime agricultural land,” she said.

Federal Minister for Resources and Energy Josh Frydenberg will put the issue on the agenda for next month’s COAG meeting.

While the states were responsible for regulation of coal seam gas activities, “important concerns’’ had been raised, a spokesman for the minister said.

Senator Lazarus wants to see a national approach to legislation.

“I have made it clear that if the Government wants to negotiate on Bills in the Senate, I want clear outcomes,” he said.

He has presented the Prime Minister with a seven-point plan including the establishment of a royal commission into the human impact of CSG mining, a CSG mining commissioner to overhaul and unify legislation, a resources ombudsman to deal with complaints and a support service to help affected landholders with legal, health, financial and other issues.

AgForce president Charles Burke said while some review to identify areas for improvement would be useful, the ­GasFields Commission Queensland was a good model.

More than 2200 landowners have conduct and compensation agreements in place with gas companies, with $200 million in payments to property owners in the past five years.

“I will probably get shot, but I think the majority of agreements have a good outcome,” Mr Burke said. “Certainly, there are a number of people who have financially done very well out of CSG in conjunction with their farming activities.’’

But he acknowledged there were exceptions: “There’s no doubt that for some, this pressure would be significant.”