Just about every passerby stopped at a recent Green Left Weekly stall in Hamilton, Newcastle, to sign the Lock the Gate Alliance petition for a moratorium on coal seam gas (CSG) mining .
All were concerned about plans to mine CSG at nearby Fullerton Cove.
The Newcastle Herald reported on a recent community consultation held by Dart Energy, where Fullerton Cove residents’ spokesperson Sue Walker said: “The environmental concerns over the water table, salinity, subsidence — regardless of what Dart says — remain real, but on top of that, if they end up building a spider’s web of drilling rigs out behind our houses, we won’t able to live in them and nobody is going to want to buy them.”
One online comment on the article asked: “Why does Dart think only Fullerton Cove residents would be concerned about this drilling? It has the potential to affect everyone accessing Hunter Water reserves if it is a threat to the Tomago Sandbeds.
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