All the farmers need to do to stop the project in its tracks is to report the sighting of some kind of fauna or flora that is an endangered species. A little research will turn up plenty of candidates, but rare spiders, frogs, snails and small fish are best because confirmation is difficult.
Major developments in Texas were stopped by radical environmentalists by citing some rare minnows in a spring and some blind spiders in a cave.
What’s good for the goose...
A good suggestion!
We could do that whenever a new mosque is proposed too.