A DELEGATION of local anti-coal seam gas activist are taking the fight to the NSW Premier’s home turf of Manly.
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The Wilderness Society and the Nature Conservation Council are hosting a forum about the region’s campaign against coal seam gas (CSG) in Premier Mike Baird’s electorate, Warringah, tomorrow.
Artesian Bore Water Users Association president Anne Kennedy, Coonabarabran conservationist Jane Judd and Gunnedah shire councillor David Quince will all make presentations at the forum.
Wee Waa farmer and vocal CSG critic, Sarah Ciesiolka, will also speak at the event and jumped at the opportunity to tell Mr Baird’s voters what was happening around Narrabri and the Pilliga forest.
“This is an opportunity for people in Mike Baird’s own electorate of Warringah to learn more about the campaign against CSG in North West NSW, and Santos’ Narrabri Gas Project in particular, from those on the front line,” Ms Ciesiolka said.
“I hope to impress upon those in attendance the importance to both the state and the nation of our food producing areas, and emphasise that CSG mining is incompatible with agricultural production in our region.”
Ms Ciesiolka said it was not too late to learn from the “disastrous Queensland experience” of the CSG industry.
“NSW has seen but a tiny glimpse of what the future may hold if the CSG industry establishes a foothold in our region, and from where it will begin to spread its tentacles,” she said..
“Santos does not have its sights set just on the Pilliga Forest and the vital southern recharge of the Great Artesian Basin. They have already mapp- ed seven prospective gasfields to their investors in North West NSW, making it very clear that their long term intention is expansion and connecting pipelines.”