Re your article North coast CSG projects to be fast-tracked, (Echonetdaily, November 6):
Peter Garrett was the federal environment minister when the project I live on (Tara in Queensland) was due for consideration. It gave us a lot of hope, but he just delayed the decision until the miners’ prime minister, Julia Gillard, could reshuffle the cabinet and get him out of the hot seat. Now with the Abbott government there is even less hope of redemption from that quarter.
The only hope is to fight to ban this dirty industry everywhere; exclusion zones will never work, moratoriums are stupid. Only a global ban will work. The campaign must be focused on climate change, water security and land rights. The corruption that allowed it to start in Queensland must also be focused on. Where was Big Environment? Where were the Greens when this industry started? Sitting on their backsides and ignoring it. The focus on fracking is foolish; fracking is not the problem, not the danger here.
If the projects on Curtis Island succeed, nowhere in Australia will be safe, no exclusion zone will help you. If you want to stop CSG in NSW then you are going to have to fight it at its heart, in Chinchilla, Miles and Roma.
Graeme Henderson, Tara, Queensland
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