The Lock The Gate alliance has lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Bureau about claims made in the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association’s “We Want CSG” advertising campaign. Alliance president Drew Hutton said the campaign risked misleading the community through “phoney claims”. Mr Hutton said there was no partnership agreement between farmers and miners as implied by the advertisements - farmers were forced by the law to accept access agreements against their will or otherwise faced being hauled into court, he said. Additionally, the coal seam gas produced by mining in Australia was not going to power the city of Sydney for 1000 years, but would instead be shipped for export until supply was exhausted.
The complaint also challenged the claim that mining will breathe new life into country towns. “The gas rush is disadvantaging other industries who can’t compete for employees and leading to social disruption from a fly-in workforce,” Mr Hutton said. “The community is locked in a David and Goliath battle against a cashed up industry that thinks it can change public sentiment by spreading phoney claims. The fact is that Australians are smarter than that – we don’t want this industry and we won’t accept the risks it poses no matter how much they spin it.”
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