While protestors are holding strong after an eight week blockade at Metgasco’s Glenugie drilling site, another battle front has been drawn up near Kyogle.
More than 40 protestors are at a drilling pad at Doubtful Creek – determined to make Metgasco’s job as difficult as possible.
well done nbn thanks a great coverage
Thank you, NBN. You covered the blockade as thoroughly as you could in the brief time-slot available. Opposition to CSG is one issue that has united the Northern Rivers communities; almost unanimously, we see what it has done to water, land, physical and mental health, and social cohesion elsewhere, and we are determined to stop it. Please continue to follow this issue; you will invariably find that the NSW Government has no mandate – no social licence – to approve unconventional gas mining here. While Metgasco repeatedly deflects criticism in the media by pointing to the fact that it has a legal right to drill, it is a sad day for our society and for democracy when a mining company can pursue its destructive agenda contrary to the unanimous and express will, and the interests, of the people who will directly suffer from its activities, by buying off a broke and desperate government and a small handful of misfortunate, unrepresentative, landholders.