Residents in AGL blockade told to move or be removed

RESIDENTS blockading a road near Gloucester in opposition to AGL’s coal seam gas operations should move immediately or be removed by police, Gloucester Shire mayor Geoff Slack said yesterday.

The blockade by the Barrington-Gloucester-Stroud Preservation Alliance was established last Monday on a public road at Forbesdale.

The road was the access to AGL’s pilot well-drilling site.

Cr Slack, a solicitor, said the protesters were breaking the law and he had asked the police late last week to remove them.

‘‘They are blocking a public road and should be moved on,’’ Cr Slack said. ‘‘They do not represent the rest of the community, they are not farmers,’’ he said.

Police visited the blockade on Thursday and the alliance agreed to a request to move vehicles, but maintained a human blockade.

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