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Greens' man warns of mining threat

24 Feb, 2011 12:00 AM
GREENS candidate for Oxley, Jeremy Bradley, farms land west of Wauchope.

He warned this week that coal seam gas companies could be mining on your property in the near future

"The NSW Coalition's new strategic land use policy raises more questions than it answers for family farmers in Oxley," he said.

"I am particularly alarmed by the Nationals support for the coal seam gas industry at the expense of farming families and communities.

"Experience in Queensland and overseas is that coal seam gas presents significant environmental risks to water supplies and can have a devastating impact on farming lands.

"Mr Stoner, the Leader of The Nationals and Shadow Minister for State Development, needs to come clean and tell us what, if any, of our farming land would be protected from gas mining.

"The National's policy is widely reported to be the product of the mining industry's spin-doctors, and has been influenced by senior National Party members with interests in coal seam gas extraction.

"It makes the average person wonder if a change of government will change anything," he said.

"As defined by the National's policy, strategic agricultural land is a very small subset of farmland in New South Wales.

"Most of our agricultural production would not be protected under this policy's narrow definition.

"If Mr Stoner took food security, and the welfare of his electorate seriously, then broader protection would be applied to our farmland", Mr Bradley said.

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I live in the Surat Basin Qld, I saw minutes to a qld meeting, Qld has 1.5% prime agricultural land protected at present, something for NSW to worry about. Also the Coal Seam Gas industry moves in by stealth, just an exploration well, fact is they know the gas is there from seizmic, so an exploration well just proofs it up. Then comes the massive infrastructure, we are being crushed up here, maybe you can stop it in it's tracks down there. It will all be going overseas anyhow. Do yourselves a favour, see Gasland, I live in that. Google a search on it, smoke and fire stuff, and there is oh so much smoke.
Posted by brian monk, 25/02/2011 3:11:47 PM, on Wauchope Gazette

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