A community group in Armidale says it’s found a major application for Special Petroleum Prospecting over much of the Northern Tablelands including Walcha.
The application made by the NSW Aboriginal Land Council covers an area that reaches from the border near Tenterfield, down to Glen Innes, Armidale, Walcha and to the mid-north coast.
“We were alarmed to discover last week that an application for coal seam gas ‘prospecting’ has been submitted across a vast area including the New England Tablelands and including towns such as Armidale and Walcha,” said Carmel Flint, spokesperson for Armidale Action on Coal Seam Gas (AACSG) and a regional co-ordinator with Lock The Gate Alliance.
The group and said the government needs to be out in front letting the community know about these plans rather than letting people stumbling across them on a website.
“There is some suggestion there might be a joint venture partner, but we don’t know who that is, but we thoroughly respect the rights of NSW Land Council to pursue whatever economic activities in the interests of its members, our argument is clearly with the NSW Government.
“We don’t think it is appropriate for them to be issuing licenses of this extraordinary scale.”
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I suspected Mabo was more than just a boring topic.... turns out it's a drilling issue....for I.colonial2.0 Is it possible that indigenous landrights was all about the crown quarantining vast tracks of land under an umbrella corporation that later has the authority to enter into mining lease agreements with environmentally irresponsible natural resource profiteering... the groundwork and precedents for which a glimpse sideways at the Ranger uranium mine etc amply demonstrates this possibility. It's Terra Nullius 2.0 revisited through that legal loop-hole: the lassoo of corporate personhood ... Gaia should have the rights of a person too.
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