Bio-dynamic farmer Bruce Robertson is one of 16 speakers selected to address Monday's coal seam gas mining public inquiry in Taree
COAL seam gas drilling would spell disaster for the Manning River, according to Bruce Robertson ... “an environmental catastrophe ... just insane”.
“The river is the heart of the Manning Valley, and we need to start valuing it more highly than we are at present,” he says.
To industrialise the valley’s prime agricultural land by way of coal seam gas drilling would therefore amount to “madness”.
Mr Robertson believes however that the majority of Manning residents haven’t fully grasped the implication of what is currently happening by way of the threat from coal seam gas drilling.
“This I believe is a very seminal event for the entire Manning Valley, and the changes coming from coal seam gas mining will happen incredibly quickly. You don’t need to have an amazing forecasting ability to see what is going to happen.”
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