Nuclear-free to gas-free

CSG Communities strategy co-ordinator Annie Kia (front) is joined by fellow residents of The Channon who are banding together to oppose CSG mining in the village and surrounds

IN the 1980s many councils and communities declared themselves nuclear-free zones; a generation later many of those same communities want to be CSG-free.

Public opposition to coal-seam gas mining took a different turn at The Channon on Saturday.

Acting on the near-unanimous vote at a public meeting and response to a comprehensive household survey, the residents plan to put "This road is gas field-free" signs on roads around the village.

Annie Kia, co-ordinator of the CSG-free communities strategy, said it was a pilot for action to be spread across the Northern Rivers.

"People will not tolerate this incursion of gas-field development," she said.

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