Residents rally: Environment Victoria's Victoria McKenzie-McHarg and Moorabool Environment Group's Deborah Porter. Picture: Steve Lightfoot
MOORABOOL residents fighting coal exploration plans in the shire gained support from federal politicians and environmental groups when they took to the streets of Melbourne last Thursday.
More than 100 people met at the corner of Collins and Swanston streets to rally against Mantle Mining's licence to drill for coal and its long-term plans to start an open-cut mine in Moorabool.
The federal Greens, Environment Victoria and Friends of the Earth joined Moorabool Environment Group to condemn Mantle's exploration licence, which covers a 38,000-hectare area from Bacchus Marsh to the outskirts of Ballan.
"Back off from Bacchus ... farms not fossil fuel" was chanted across the busy CBD intersection before the rally marched up Collins Street to the offices of Mantle's new financial backer, Cygnet Capital. Read More
Melton & Moorabool Weekly
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