“We can’t eat money, we need to save our future food,” seventh generation farmer Tim Duddy told a packed forum on February 6.
Organised by the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance, the forum examined the impacts of coal and coal seam gas (CSG) activity on farming regions that make up Australia’s food bowl.
Duddy, a spokesperson for the Caroona Coal Action Group, outlined how NSW’s Liverpool Plains, despite being among the most productive farmland in Australia and producing 37% of all the cereals in Australia, is seriously threatened by coal and CSG mining. Duddy said this productive farmland is fragile and is linked by aquifers and surface flows to the Murray Darling Basin. Any damage from mining could devastate the region’s food and water supply.
Acknowledging the traditional owners of the land, Duddy noted: "We can learn from a civilisation that can live for 40,000 years and not destroy the land. Look what we've done in just over 200 years.
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