The amount AGL will pay the council in licence fees and one-off payments is confidential but a report to the council at last week's meeting said the agreement represented a ``responsible financial result for the council''.

The agreement, which was endorsed by the council last week, instructed AGL to give at least five days notice before it installs any facilities on Gundungurra Reserve.

As part of its Camden Gas Project, AGL will extract coal seam methane gas from underground gas wells using low pressure gas gathering lines. There are about 100 gas wells across Macarthur.

Under the terms of the 15-year agreement, AGL is ordered to minimise the noise impacts of its operations, landscape the area next to the gas wells to screen the facilities and cover the cost of any damage.

The council was divided when the terms of the agreement were debated at the meeting.

A motion by councillor Fred Anderson to use the income received from the agreement to improve public facilities at Gundungurra Reserve was defeated.

Deputy mayor Greg Warren, who chaired the meeting, used his casting vote to adopt the report and vote against Cr Anderson's motion. After the meeting, Cr Anderson said: ``(AGL's work) is an imposition on the park and I felt that the money derived from the contract should go to the improvement of the park.''