Glen Innes action group ; Abraham Jennings, Zialina Earth, Heather Rogers, Enaowyn O'Sirideain, Chloe Fennessy-Sleet and Ayesha Sleet attended the action group’s meeting last week.
THE Northern New England area may be sitting on a dome of granite but that, according to local Lock the Gate affiliate group, does not make the region safe from CSG mining.
This was part of the message delivered to the thirty four people who attended the Glen Innes Coal Seam Gas video and discussion evening last week.
Enaowyn O’Sirideain, a spokesperson for the newly formed group is, like most people battling for the protection of the land, outraged with the government’s handling of mining and exploration rights and believes if the community here is forewarned and therefore forearmed, the “catastrophe” that has occurred in the North West, the Pilliga and Liverpool Plains can be avoided here.
“According to area maps provided in the Draft Strategic Land Use Plan, (DSLUP) two thirds of the New England region has large gas reserves or other mining resources, primarily on agricultural land.
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