On Sunday I marched with about a thousand people down King Street, Newtown in protesting about approval to drill a core hole in St Peters and about the rapid expansion of the coal seam gas industry in Australia without full scientific risk assessment.
One of the chants was ‘stop CSG, we want renewable energy now.’ Earlier this year the CSG industry tried to sell CSG to Australians by saying it was a transitional fuel between coal and renewable energy but I notice that this has been dropped in their recent advertising campaign.
The anti CSG movement argued that spending money on infrastructure for CSG will slow down development of renewable energy and we should go straight from coal to renewable energy.
Meanwhile the coal industry distanced itself from the CSG industry.
Putty Gasbag
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