The University Centre for Rural Health hosted a meeting of health professionals in Lismore this week to discuss the potential health effects of the emerging CSG industry.
Among the speakers were clinical psychologist Dr Wayne Somerville and anaesthetist Dr Rowena Knoesen, as well as environmental scientist Boudicca Cerese and solicitor Sue Higginson.
Dr Somerville said the possibility of CSG industry expansion in the region threatened to be the biggest social and psychological trauma Australians had been exposed to since the Vietnam War.
"It's time for health professionals to become health activists," he said.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and I don't want to spend the next 150 years dealing with the impacts of CSG mining when we can stop it now."
Northern Rivers Echo
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