Some of the crowd of 400 at the CSG-free declaration at The Channon oval on Saturday.
WHEN 400 people turn up on a showery Saturday to a muddy oval at The Channon to get a message out to the region, the state, the nation and the world, you can sense the passion.
They came with their parents and kids, umbrellas and gumboots, emotions and opinions.
The message: Our community rejects coal-seam gas mining.
The village appears to have created a world first: It has declared itself gasfield-free in the same way many areas have declared themselves nuclear-free.
In what Lismore Mayor Jenny Dowell and CSG-free communities co-ordinator Annie Kia admitted could be no more than a symbolic gesture, residents of The Channon and surrounding areas and supporters from across the Northern Rivers gathered.
Northern Star
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