The Queensland leader of Katter's Australian Party, Aidan McLindon, has joined an anti-coal seam gas blockade south of Brisbane.
Local landowners and anti-CSG campaigners from Queensland and NSW set up the protest site on a farm at Kerry, near Beaudesert, early yesterday, preventing Arrow Energy from doing exploratory CSG drilling.
Twelve people have been arrested at the site and charged with contravening a police direction. They will all face Beaudesert Magistrates Court next month.
Mr McLindon, a former LNP member and sitting Beaudesert MP, said he had joined the blockade because he shared the residents' concerns about the mining practice.
SMH
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