There have been at least a dozen arrests at a coal seam gas protest at Glenugie on the mid north coast.
More than a 150 demonstrators were trying to stop trucks and drilling equipment from entering a property, that’s been chosen for a test site.
There have been at least a dozen arrests at a coal seam gas protest at Glenugie on the mid north coast.
More than a 150 demonstrators were trying to stop trucks and drilling equipment from entering a property, that’s been chosen for a test site.
These first people arrested are supported by thousands across the region. I predict that the failure of Metgasco and Arrow as a business is inevitable, as are governments that support the CSG industry. The hard part will be to achieve this before they start to poison our people, our regions long term economic future, and our independence as a nation. The mining industry cannot be allowed to continue to run Australia through proxy political parties, and the use of massive slush funds to bribe and manipulate the media.
I notice that the editors at NBN dont yet understand the critical threat that CSG poses to our health and economy. The broadcast of their coverage of one of the first of many confrontations with the mining menace on the 6pm news has been pushed 17 minutes into the newscast today. Come on NBN. Get behind your own community- we represent 85-95% of the community and we wont be going away. We buy, we vote, and we choose. No way CSG!
These protestors are supported by the majority of Australians. This is just the beginning. When will our so called “democratic” governments finally listen to their constituents. WE DON’T WANT COAL SEAM GAS
No social license to drill. We have seen the writing on the wall and we will not take it! Mark my words this industry is dead.
I am a North Coast resident I was at Glenugie today what I saw was a disgusting display from the O’Farrell government once again he has sent the riot squad to a peace full protest It wasn’t until police started to push did anything occur the people have spoken we do not want this dirty industry in out pristine valley the Clarence river has one of the largest catchments in Australia so much for the government protecting the water supply. We can’t drink or eat gas sad part is they are destroying our land to ship the gas off to China its not going to help one Australian only those who are set to get rich from it.
Metgasco share price falling daily. The writing is in the wall for this shoddy company look at this chart and start doing some real reporting and investigative journalism instead of being stenographers https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200375350852975&set=o.112663408798347&type=1&theater
i cannot comprehend why anyone would support coal seam gas mining ,especially in a pristine area such as northern rivers. as each day goes by i am speechless that the N.S.W. gov. is allowing this disaster to happen. the protesters at glenugie are heroes and should be applauded
Metgasco are lying. This CSG mining has been banned on France and even in Bulgaria and may other nations and it has not “suddenly erupted” people are fed up with corporations riding roughshod over our lives and you people in the media are complicit and culpable. BTW you will find that most f the police arrests are illegal.
NO COAL SEAM GAS and no fracking or drilling which should be banned Australia wide until it is PROVEN (which can’t be done) poisoning of our water basins does not happen. Mining companies are more interested in money and NOT in the health and well being of Australians.
Grannies, farmers, parents, families, business people, greenies and ORDINARY Australians like you and me DO NOT WANT CSG mining or fracking done anywhere in Australia. Learn by what has happened already and adults and children are suffering drastically from the effects already but it is being dismissed by greedy companies and government officials.
Learn for yourself and WAKE UP!!
How is this not BULLYING the ordinary Australian familes and even Indigenous Elders!!!!!
Today at Glenugie – 150 PEACEFUL protestors, 60 to 80 armed riot police happened today with drilling rigs moving in, elders pushed to the ground, broken bones 7 arrests. … These protestors are true heroes and are acting on behalf of thousands of Australians who can’t get there to protest themselves!!!!!!!!
I am a 74 yr. old grandmother and I was camped at the Glenugie site for 3 nights. We were raided by the Tactical Response Unit at 6am. We were lucky if we’d even had a cup of tea before we were herded and pushed along for nearly 2 kms in the midday sun. One lovely young man had previously addressed the crowd on how well the police had acted up until that point, but ended up being man handled, pushed into a ditch and arrested. This was very distressing to me and I said to the police how sad it was to see fine young Aussie men treating their fellow Australians in such a way!!
so sad and sorry to hear and witness your plight anne I was digusted by the way people were treated today. It seems like Australians are not allowed to hold a peacefull protest. THE WORLD HAS CHANGED SINCE I WAS A BOY.I used to have respect .. I don’t anymore
I had the police saying to me this afternoon when i was packing up my things quietly to leave ‘so are you girls coming back to play again tommorow?’ and then they all laughed…i am a 40 year old man. This is the kind of condesending that you can expect from the police if you want to stand up for the planet when your own government will not. I am bitterly dissapointed.
It is hard not to feel sympathy for the police, if Metgasco have lawful approval to go onto the property and the protestors are stopping them, what else can the police do? What rules our society, the law or the size of the mob? Isn’t mob rule also called anarchy?
The number of police is a clear indication that the government has no Social Licence to permit Multinational Companies to come into this region, industrialise it and harm the health of our families and communities, the environment, our lifestyles and our prosperity.
Wayne, what we’re witnessing here is a failure in democracy. This isn’t mob rule, it’s practically the entire population which is against CSG Fracking. I have absolutely no sympathy for the police. If they had an ounce of backbone they would quit their jobs before assisting this pathetic government to force CSG Fracking upon us. They’re a disgrace to their uniforms.
i ‘m so devastated couldn’t b The Glenugie Action (Australian Action Alliance) Ongoing…i have been kept posted by friends who were there nd watching the net…nd m disgusted to hear the manhandling of “woman & children” the Arrests of some many good people…who r just standing up for Mother Earth who has no voice…can’t believe this is what our country has come too…i thought we lived in the land of the free!! well go to glenugie nd u start feeling like ur in a war zone in Iraq…where their is some crazy dictatorship is going on…What happend to our rights??…i’m standing up nd saying no to coal seam gas…cause i didn’t bring my children into this world to watch them get sick nd suffer…obviously these people have been tought no respet…if they can destroy there own mother!!!!
Blah Blah Blah…. Seriously people, after reading peoples thoughts and views I’m actually a little stunned to hear the ridiculous and misinformed comments that are coming out….
1. Metgasco have ticked all the right box’s
2. Action group should be on the goverments door step if their not happy
3. Appears rumors are probaly more so driving the masses as opposed to the facts,
5. STOP watching Gaslands, Starwars has more credibility than that doco
6. It is in the best interest of companies to ensure the wells are secure, I would be absolute certain that when you go and put $20 of petrol in your vehicle that you wouldn’t pump $10 worth of it on the ground, companies aren’t about to put 100 barrels on the ship and 50 barrels in the paddocks,creeks or aquifers, its cost to much to get out in the first place
7. Exploration site means exactly that EXPLORATION, not production = no fracking today people, if at all
8. And you didnt even notice there was no number 4..
Yes I do feel a little for the people of the region as no one likes change, and certainly a big change like potential CSG extraction in the region, but try and get all the facts not just a couple that have been thrown in to get the masses going..
Red dog, it appears that you haven’t done much research. CSG mining stands to cause a great deal of environmental harm to our pristine environment, and it’s unnecessary. There is conventional gas in the Bass Strait to last plenty of years, but if it came to it we could always borrow a bit of Queensland’s ill gotten gas – the stuff they’re shipping overseas through the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef. (Which, by the way, doesn’t seem to have fixed their ailing economy any.) We’d get it heaps cheaper than Metgasco and the state government’s going to have to pay to be able to mine it the Northern Rivers. Seriously, anyone who doesn’t understand why we are up in arms needs to research more thoroughly. To start with you might like to look at this youtube clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz2mq5GYnR0 T
thank you to all the informed, caring and courageous people at Glenugie bloackade…..any support and help that can be offered is obviously needed to assist those that are willing and able to put themselves in the front line and face being uncomfortable, scared, injured and possibly arrested to protect all of our water and land…thank you again…… the earth..animals and plants,,,my children,,,children’s children etc etc……thank you
I’m truly sorry reddog you feel this way! Here in Australia we are being bombarded with mining leases for csg on prime agricultural land, as eg 96% of NSW is involved. When you own property that you have worked hard for and your told that you have absolutely no rights to stop this industry coming onto your land (or your neighbours land for that matter which may affect you even more depending in this case, proposed well sites) as is the case in NSW you start to investigate what the process is about. There are very real issues with this industry. Are you aware of the millions of litres of water required to frack just one well, the chemicals used, the noise pollution described by land owners, contaminated water in Aquifers, ground water, streams and rivers, the total loss of value to the land, air contamination, increased green house gas releases. Perhaps you should walk in the shoes of people who are being adversely affected by this industry … That’s if for any compensation at all they haven’t been made to sign a confidentiality agreement affectively gagging them from saying what is truly happening (wonder why they were made to) … But then I suppose you could talk to their neighbours. Have a look at what has happened in what was the prestine Piliga Forest of NSW, have a look at the Condamine River, research Southern Cross Universitys recent study on Queensland Tara gasfield … Go take a walk in your own countries gas effected regions and then comment … I would also recommend you take a little look at a documentary called ‘the sky is pink’ it carries on a bit too much but there are some underlying facts and documents coming from the Gas Companies themselves, such as the breakdown of well walls leading to contaminant release to surounding areas. There are better forms of energy out there then, at this point, by this method which is slowly being proven to unsafe to our air, land, water and all aspects of our environment! Perhaps this is just an exploratory lease but to many it’s the start of something far more insidious which many many people wish to stop before it even starts!
Dear Ramapriya, sorry but you are advocating mob rule. You say practically the whole population is against it, but there looked to be a couple hundred people max. So are the police to say “we won’t enforce the law if a couple of hundred people protest?” What a load of rubbish! You are entitle to protest, and I agree with your cause, but your argument is the ones who make the law, not the ones who have sworn an oath to enforce it. You should be in Macquarie St Sydney protesting, not harassing hardworking police.
SORRY TO HEAR THE GAS AND FRACKING IS HAPPENING IN AUSTRALIA…its happening here in the USA also in the pennsylvania and upstate new york catskill TH THIS FIGHTmts.it seems to be a concerted effort to buy up all the land these companies can and then do whatever they want to and the govt.seems to be dragging their feet about testing and regulating without listening to what the people want …GOOD LUCK TO YOU AUSSIES WITH THIS PEOPLES PLIGHT!!! we are continuing the fight for the next generations to come..
Wayne, CSG is now coming up in conversations everywhere uninitiated by activists…in bus queues, meetings, checkouts… and invariably in the negative. For every 1 person that turns up at a protest, they represent 100,000 people. This industry is seriously on the nose. And you know why? Because until recent law changes, the NSW Government was going to give the gas away completely without charge to the miners, despite the known proven & experienced toxic air emissions, merhan migration, water contamination, excessive water usage and aquifer destruction. No cost benefit outcome for the people of Australia. That’s why this industry is despised.
Reddog & Wayne speak like they work for the mining company`s . Me thinks , given the amount of information that proves coal & CSG mining is detrimental in so many instances. Only a fool or an employee would show CSG support …………
On one hand Carol Ann tells me I haven’t done my research, on the other hand Mick Perger has Wayne and myself possibly working in the industry… Carol first of all make sure that you yourself have done the necessary research yourself prior to commenting, your comment clearly states the need for CSG, just not in your back yard, you would rather it come out of the Surat Basin as your comment suggests, talk about having your cake and eating too.. As for your youtube clip I did take the time to watch it, appears that nothing has changed in years with the information given in this clip, old lies being rehashed appears the only difference is that there is always a different face delivering inaccurate information attempting to strike fear into the crowd. As for Mick Perger,to be called a fool a comment as such could only be suggested by either a witty fool or a foolish wit.. Also a little curious did you pick up on there was no number 4 in my original comment or had you already made your decision based on what you think you already know, its easy to fool the crowd when they don’t read the fine print…
I don’t work in the mining industry, if you read my comment I said I support the anti CSG cause. My concern is that police are being abused, i.e. called “disgraceful” for doing their job. Protest all you like, if you obey the law and don’t block the entrance then police can do more important work. Personally I would rather police be chasing drug dealers and rapists, but if the mining company have the appropriate approvals then they should be allowed to enter, and police must ensure people comply with that lawful right. Seems to me you all should be protesting about the politicians who make the laws which allow this to happen (a point I made before).
PS I am saddened that a real threat like CSG mining only draws small number of protestors, when a hoax like man made global warming draws many hundreds of thousands.
Reddog, in a comment to Carol Ann ‘ Also a little curious did you pick up on there was no number 4 in my original comment’. Hard not to since you wrote on the post in question, it was a bit of a hint, even if someone hadn’t, which I did and just thought, whoops until I got the end..
‘8. And you didnt even notice there was no number 4..’
I don’t know about anyone else but I did a lot of research before I took a stance. I talked to the people affected.
Myself and others have been out to the Surat Basin, I now know the farmers, the ones who are far from happy. and seen what they don’t tell you or show you on the ‘shiny’ ads.
Also the people near Tara who are living in an industrial zone, who are sick, have to put up with noise, pollution, degraded land, water drawdown.
People are not asked if they want this, they are told.
Many farmers and residents are impacted, even if it isn’t on your land.
Jobs are fifo’s, not locals and towns do not prosper, the economic diversity suffers and it is short term.
It starts with exploratory wells, which can easily be turned into productive wells later. They don’t drill exploratory wells without planning to do more. Then comes everything else, the traffic, the roads, the fifo camps, the ‘ponds’, the pipes, the noise the dust, the water issues (just not contamination either) the pressure on local infrastructure, the increased town rental costs, loss of rural property values.
What happens when the gas is gone?.
The gas is going down the pipeline to be exported at Gladstone. Not local, not even Australian.
LTG was started by farmers and residents affectected and displaced by coal and then those in the Western Downs, affected by coal and CSG.
Btw, I didn’t even see Gaslands before I saw and heard what was happening here about three years ago.
I love these protesters, and they are right. Don’t let these Frackers in. These Mining people don’t give a dam about you or your communities only there Pockets, deep,deep pockets with deep False promises. Bring out the “Southern Cross Flag” Be resilient….Keep Australia Clean and Green!!!
Jobs hey?
So how many jobs will Metgasco create beyond the set-up phase?
In Casino Richmond Dairies (RD) alone employs approximately 200 people – not sure how many FTEs this is, but it’s certainly not 10.
This factory relies on dairy product – one of the most water-intensive agricultural products we have, thus RD is very sensitive to losing access to clean water supplies (to the CSG sector which would use heaps). So I can’t see how dairying and CSG can possibly co-exist, when they both want the same water supply to operate.
So, in the dairy versus CSG competition (for water), which industry will create the most jobs over the next few decades (of course, after that there will be zero CSG jobs after the gas has been removed) ?
Can Metgasco create anything like the number of jobs at Richmond Dairies in Casino (not to mention other jobs that flow from dairying)?