Monday, April 30

The vast antique Pilliga Forest

When word went out to environment groups, students and regional media that another Coal Seam Gas tour of Australia’s most threatened semi-arid forest was on, the response was wide and enthusiastic. Last Friday in front of the National Park’s Pilliga Forest Discovery Centre in Barradine, a large group from all ages and walks of life, gathered for the tour.

 Coming from Queensland to ACT and points in between, the group assembled to find out more about the Pilliga Forest and the threat of coal seam gas. Inside the discovery centre at Barradine, displays show the diversity of wildlife to be found in this vast antique forest.

While there will be no coal seam gas mining within the National Park boundaries, the danger to wildlife and habitat in the adjoining Pilliga State Forest and State Conservation areas is imminent, according to the tour organizer Pat Schulz of Armidale Action Against Coal Seam Gas. Mining company Santos has an application with the NSW Government for a license for 1100 new coal seam gas wells to be placed in a web like grid through 850 square kilometres of the Eastern Pilliga.

Author: Jacinta Green

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