Wednesday, March 21

CSG protesters 'threatened with dogs' : Toowoomba

Protesters claim private security guards threatened to turn attack dogs on them at a coal seam gas blockade near Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.

Police arrested two protesters at the blockade today.

But organiser Heidi Ross, from the Lock The Gate movement, said that before officers arrived, security guards threatened to use attack dogs to drive the demonstrators away.

"It's a blockade of a newly established training base for CSG drillers," she said.

"The plan as we understand it is for rigs and workers to be shipped out from that central point to drill for CSG throughout the prime agricultural farming region of the Darling Downs."

Protester June Norman said she was not manhandled, but others were.

"I'm 71 years old and they bypassed me, they were a little bit squibbish about taking on an elder, but some of the others were definitely roughed up," she said.


Brisbane Times

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