CSG marches closer to Brisbane

SOUTH-east Queenslanders are for the first time facing the reality of the coal seam gas industry right on their doorstep.

Broadacre farm group AgForce said the current protest against Shell/Petro China’s Coal Seam Gas (CSG) exploration at Kerry in the Scenic Rim area south of Brisbane highlights the impacts this industry has on the day-to-day lives of Queenslanders right across the state.

Policy director Drew Wagner visited the protest today to explain AgForce’s concerns about the resources sector, particularly the escalating CSG industry.

“The latest action shows CSG is no longer an issue affecting areas 300 kilometres away across the Great Divide, but is now marching closer and closer to the Greater Brisbane area,” Mr Wagner said.

“The emotions and concerns about potential environmental consequences of this company’s activities at Kerry echo what we’ve seen for some years now across high quality agricultural land right around Queensland.”

AgForce sympathises with the farmers, tourism operators and locals around Beaudesert and again calls on the government and the Opposition to take community frustrations about this sector seriously.

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