Anti-coal-seam gas campaign heats up
Lock The Gate
A national day of action is planned to fight coal-seam gas (CSG) mining in Australia after the peak Australian group set up to fight it laid out battle plans at its inaugural annual general meeting in Murwillumbah last weekend.
Blockades, rallies, forums, festivals and hard lobbying will be the backbone of the Lock the Gate (LTG) Alliance campaign after more than 160 people representing community, environmental and farming groups from around the country converged at Murwillumbah Civic Centre for the two-day meeting.
Re-elected LTG president Drew Hutton said his organisation, made up of over 90 affiliated groups from almost every state with hundreds of members and thousands of supporters, had in a short space of time grown into a 'dynamic' new social movement.
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