Estella Bethune, 9, of Keerrong and Judi Emmett from the Keerrong Gas Squad with other anti-CSG activists who are holding a letterbox drop this Sunday in Lismore to promote a mass public meeting next Thursday.
Former dairy farmer Robert Morton was reared on the original Rock valley property where the Rosehill Buttery was established in 1875. He talks about those halcyon days when butter and cheese was transported to Lismore by bullock and shipped down the river far and wide, some of it finding its way to the halls of Parliament House.
"And that's where we'll end up if something's not done about coal seam gas," he says. "We don't want foreign greed to take over our basic needs - clean air and uncontaminated water. I love the land... and there's no way CSG can live in harmony with agriculture. I'm really concerned about the overriding of farmers' rights to their own land that's been owned and passed down for generations."
Robert is one of a hundred volunteers from anti-CSG groups around the region who are joining together this weekend to letterbox drop 12,000 homes in Lismore. They wish to spread the word about the dangers of CSG and call people to a public meeting next Thursday.
Northern Rivers Echo
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