Baerami and district residents are forming a community action group against coal seam gas.
“The coal seam gas companies are silently marching on,” Baerami Creek farm manager Rowan Smith said.
“We need to be vigilant right now and stop them. Once they get in the door it is terribly difficult.
“We’ve seen what’s happened in Queensland.”
Energy companies want to access private land in Baerami Creek, Widden Valley, Kerrabee and Sandy Hollow for coal seam gas exploration.
It is believed Planet Gas has started exploratory drilling in Kerrabee.
Two public meetings in Baerami earlier this year attracted more than 200 people and a local submission to the current NSW parliamentary inquiry on coal seam gas was signed by 180 residents in opposition.
A meeting to form a committee to oversee the fight against coal seam gas in the area will be held at Baerami Hall on December 3 at 2pm.
Muswellbrook Chonicle
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