The community group Stop CSG Illawarra is opposing coal seam gas extraction by mining corporation Apex within the beautiful Darkes Forest bushland. The NSW Planning Assessment Commission is considering an application by Apex to drill an extra gas extraction well there, in addition to the fifteen already approved by the state government.
Stop CSG Illawarra wants an end to the practice of fracking (under which subterranean matter is fractured in order to release the gas), an immediate moratorium on all approved CSG mining projects and an inquiry into CSG impacts.
Jess Moore, a member of Stop CSG Illawarra, said, “It’s increasingly clear, based on these types of events that the level of opposition to CSG, both nationally and in the Illawarra, is growing”.
On October 27, as part of the “lock the gate” campaign, farmers mounted a round-the–clock blockade at the gates of a farm 60 kilometres from Gunnedah on the rich north-west NSW Liverpool Plains.
The Guardian
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