Friday, July 20

CSG concerns continue to plague region

Late last year two abseilers jumped off the side of the Illawarra's Sea Cliff Bridge and unfurled a banner which said: Stop CSG.

They were part of a peaceful march across the bridge that drew more than 3000 men, women and children from all walks of life.
 
Together they were protesting against coal seam gas mining, the invasive industry that has threatened some of this region's and Australia's pristine escarpment, farming lands and underground water aquifers.
 
The marchers were part of a national campaign which demanded a moratorium on all approved CSG mining, a royal commission of inquiry and a ban on the controversial process called fracking.
 
It seems their concerns have fallen on deaf ears if the contents of a leaked government document are true.

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Illawarra Mercury

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