A CHEMICALS expert will speak at a forum on the health impacts of coal mining and coal seam gas extraction in Gunnedah this coming Saturday.
Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith is the senior advisor to the National Toxics Network and IPEN, an international chemical safety network.
She is also a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the national industrial chemical regulator and was a member of the UN Expert Group on Climate Change and Chemicals.
Last year Dr Lloyd-Smith co-authored the National Toxics Network report on the chemical impacts of hydraulic fracturing in the Australian shale and coal seam gas industry.
This weekend she will speak about the health effects of the chemicals used in coal seam gas extraction at the forum, hosted by the North West Alliance Against Coal and Coal Seam Gas.
British GP Dr Dick Van Steenis will talk about the health effects of coal mining, which he has been researching since 1997.
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