Using a four-wheel-drive to herd cattle down the road, near Goulburn. Farmers are starting to fight back against the burgeoning coal seam gas boom in Australia, taking community action to prevent miners from taking over their lands. (Neil Sands/AFP/Getty Images)
Farmers are pushing back against coal and coal seam gas (CSG) mining in Australia in what one activist says has become one of the “biggest social movements in Australia’s history.”
Drew Hutton, a Queensland environmentalist, says the movement against mining in rural regions has become “a tidal wave” since last year, when he first started to work with Queensland farmers who were facing an onslaught from coal and CSG miners.
“Since then, it has become a national issue, with coal and coal seam gas going berserk and going all around the country, New South Wales in particular, but also Victoria and Western Australia,” he told The Epoch Times. Read More
Drew Hutton, a Queensland environmentalist, says the movement against mining in rural regions has become “a tidal wave” since last year, when he first started to work with Queensland farmers who were facing an onslaught from coal and CSG miners.
“Since then, it has become a national issue, with coal and coal seam gas going berserk and going all around the country, New South Wales in particular, but also Victoria and Western Australia,” he told The Epoch Times. Read More
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