Local beef producer Ed Robinson, with dog Smudge, said too much was unknown about CSG and its impact on water.
CALLS for a moratorium on new coal seam gas (CSG) exploration and development are increasingly strident, with emotions running high at Mullaley, Mittagong and Gloucester this week.
About 200 people concerned about a Santos pilot well at Kahlua, near Mullaley, about 25 kilometres north-west of Gunnedah, met with federal Independent MP for New England Tony Windsor and Nationals Senator Fiona Nash on Tuesday.
Santos has plans to drill four pilot wells at Kahlua.
At Mittagong, community members, from Carmelite nuns to corporate bankers, called for a pause on CSG development at the penultimate public hearing for the NSW government’s CSG inquiry.
The Carmelite nuns spoke of the “sheer audacity” of plonking six gas wells next to their Scenic Hills retreat, with Sister Jocelyn Kramer calling for a moratorium until independent, peer-reviewed research was complete and public.
AGL planned 72 gas wells across Campbelltown’s Scenic Hills and this could be “merely an initial estimate”, leading a beautiful, tranquil area to become “irreversibly industrialised”, she said.
The Land
No comments:
Post a Comment