The Csg Drill Rig leaves Doubtful Creek NSW

Photo from Csg Free Northern Rivers

Thirty five Police arrived at Doubtful Creek today because the  Drill rig was leaving.  Police organized to truck in 35 tonnes of road base to form an alternate road for the rig to get out with the original road already well barricaded and blockaded with three protesters locking themselves on to a painted Ford Falcon dubbed the "simmotron" in front parked in front of the access road to the drill site.  The idea behind this is to keep it in the cage now.  This stops it from moving to another site to cause the same damage somewhere else . This is just as important as stopping it getting in at the first instance.

Rig tucks in to bed at the Casino Metgasco compound with Jane watching it like a hawk.

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Farmers call for support from local council for Doubtful Ck blockade

From Lock the Gate Alliance

• Local farmers who have been strong supporters of the Doubtful Ck anti-CSG

  blockade have gone public in an attempt to clear up false reports
  circulating in recent weeks about the impact of the blockade on local
  residents. In a letter to Kyogle Council the farmers have also called
  on council to support them in their ongoing efforts to stop coal seam gas
  activities in their local area.
  
  "We want to set the record straight about this blockade as we are disgusted
  at some of the falsehoods that are being pedaled around," said local born
  sixth generation farmer, Don Durrant, who has traveled to Chinchilla in
  Queensland to see first hand the impacts of the CSG industry on rural
  communities.
  
  "There has been a vocal minority claiming to have been abused and
  inconvenienced yet I have been in the thick of the action and I have seen
  none of this- just people calling out to slow down when some locals are
  driving dangerously and aggressively."
  
  "I have only missed three days of the six week blockade and and am
  overwhelmed with gratitude to the dozens and dozens of people who have come
  and camped in adverse conditions to support us local farmers against this
  insidious industry."
  
  "We all have lives to live, families to look after, and farms to run but we
  have put these on hold to try to save the necessities of life- our water,
  our land, our food supply and the beautiful country that our ancestors
  fought and died for," he said.
  
  Local beef cattle and vegetable producer Peter Stackhouse has also been
  central to the action at Doubtful Creek.
  
  "I've only missed two days of the blockade when my back was crook as I want
  to do everything I can to stop this coal seam gas industry," Peter said.
  
  "How we farmers can help is by giving the logistical support to the people
  camping- food and water and hot showers and accommodation when they need
  it," he said.
  
  "I have not seen any of the sort of incidents they are talking about in the
  media- if I had I would have stopped it," he said.
  
  "No-one has been blocked from accessing their properties- only the public
  road and state forest access are being blockaded as we are just here to
  stop Metgasco, no-one else."
  
  "This issue encompasses more than just our immediate environs and there are
  not enough people in such sparsely populated rural areas to provide
  continuous opposition at this type of blockade, so we welcome the input of
  people from around the region and beyond."
  
  "We have taken our concerns to Kyogle Council in a letter signed by 21
  local landholders as we would like to see more support from our local
  council rather than criticism for something we consider to be a job well
  done under extremely difficult circumstances," he said. 
  THEN the local paper spreads lies and deception in order to placate the failing METGASCO FIASCO. 
  with
  Patrick Gorbunovs story in the Northern Star "FARMERS SAY NO"
  http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/farmers-say-enough/1776211/#.UT0CjRJZxpw.email
  

  KYOGLE Shire Mayor Ross Brown has called on Doubtful Creek protesters to move on, following a meeting with frustrated landowners who feel intimidated by elements of the anti-CSG community.
  "They've achieved as much as they can possibly achieve with the protest action so far. All they're now creating is bad feeling," Cr Brown said yesterday.
  Kyogle Council met with residents from some 15 Doubtful Creek properties on Thursday, who say they have been negatively affected by the month-long Knights Rd protest.
  The council will now draft a set of protocols to manage any future protests and avoid these kinds of issues happening again.
  "Our protocols will address such issues as parking, camping, toilet facilities, keeping the road free, and working with the protest groups and keeping the local population as minimally affected by it as we possibly can," Cr Brown said.
  He said some local landowners had reached "the final straw" and had sought help from the council to take more responsibility for the situation.
  "The crux of the matter was on Tuesday night, a gentleman out there was trying to get his cattle to market and they blockaded his gate in and they wouldn't move, and he couldn't get his cattle out," he said.
  "They feel harassed, they feel intimated and it's been going on for so long they almost feel like they're under siege."
  Cr Brown said the situation had reached the point where it was detrimental to people's state of mind.
  "Realistically, if I was involved in a protest now, and being aware of the way it's been going on, I think those groups should pack up and move," he said. "The downside to this is now outweighing whatever it is they think they're picking up."
  Lock the Gate spokesman Ian Gaillard said tensions were rising after almost four weeks of protest.
  Mr Gaillard said he had successful meetings with both Kyogle Council and senior Richmond police two weeks ago to discuss concerns about safety and respect issues at the site.
  But he said the trouble lay with the NSW Government.
  "The Northern Rivers is becoming a pressure cooker because the State Government continues to impose this industry on an unwilling community by force. The onus is on the government to pull back and slow this whole process down."

  My yarn around this issue!  ... All of this is clear.  It is easy  to see what is going on here.  These huge companies will stop at absolutely nothing to try to swindle the unsuspecting Australian who is already too busy to notice the real truth because of a lack of time for self discovery of facts.  These people are still relying on the newspaper or the Television to tell them the truth.  Paint the picture, they get up at the crack of dawn and deal with irrate people all day in their small business, they rush around with young children to and from day care and school and extra curricula activities, attempt shopping and eat and do it all over again the next day, there is no time to find out what is going on in the rest of the country and this is replicated right across the nation.
  Some how, these are the huge group of Australians who missed the bit where these large companies started monopolizing the media outlets across Australia.  They missed this and are still blindly going on what they are being fed as what is known  to us who do understand and the rest of the world over as "Spin".  Company spin is what is being broadcast as news.  It is hard to find a good journalist who prints the truth. 
  
  These types of publications that do speak truth are out there  ie Echonetdaily and Terrania Times etc and various websites where truth can be found around these huge issues.   But, if you are one of those busy people you really have to take some time with this as this is the biggest environmental disaster enveloping the entire nation.
  
  If you are reading this blog and you know some one that fits this bill I have described above, they are usually the most hard working people in the neighbourhood,  go and help them understand the truth.  Take a video or two and a bag of popcorn and a beer even if you have to, but go and help!  
  
  If all of Australia did this we would spread the truth of this Gas matter like wild fire.  We need a national week of educate a friend week.   A week we all dedicate time that week to tell someone and interact with someone who needs some education on Coal Seam Gas Mining and the general state of the lax way in which these licenses have been handed out and the fact that none of us receive a thing for this for five years and by then we will be in a lot of trouble if this is not stopped by the time that five years is up.
  Go and tell a new friend at least this week.  The mother is asking for your help - help her where you can in any small way, the planet knows when you care. 

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NSW POLICE BULLIES FOR MINING COMPANIES

 

Normally I would agree with keeping it together regarding the usual laws we have to keep.  This hot bed of action at protest sites has shown that law abiding people get hurt.  They get seriously hurt protecting land and water and there is no respect by police to Country or the wishes of the people who country it is.  The Githabul give no permission for any Csg Mining on any of their lands as does Gomiloi too.  Many nations are standing.   

It is very frustrating but we are dealing with obvious corruption in our police force on all levels including Csg Protesting statements. Officers will  have made statements and we will get to see how trustworthy our force is whence we are privy to what they have documented.

Ballina Station is in the spot light for this at the moment and are they the only station - you would have to be asleep if you thought that the way it was. It isn't and its very wrong. We are human beings not animals.  

I don't want to be a part of any system that condones any of this. Although I dislike being quite poor at times.  I have seen too much to think otherwise about our law enforcement officers. We have blinkers on if we think they are squeaky clean.

Corruption and collusion is still the order of the day! QUOTE Constable Mewing from BALLINA... "We copy each others statements to refresh our memory"! Hello, civilians are not allowed this so why are they?

Under what jurisdiction did  these officers  at Doubtful Creek to use capsicum spray on a man who was clearly not going anywhere.  This is a blatant mis-use of power once again and needs to be handed over to the Police Integrity Commission for review.

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The Weekend Roundup from Doubtful Creek

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The amazing Mr Xavier Rudd called into Doubtful Creek to do the Pop Up concert for the fight against Csg in the Northern Rivers.  Xavier has been very vocal of late in the media regarding his opposition to this type of mining.  Last week on Triple J's Hack program he openly stood up against some fairly serious attacks regarding his core beliefs and how he feels about the environment.  I was wondering when the ABC was going to introduce this topic onto the Hack stage forum as it is a hot topic that is largely going unreported in the media because of just who owns our media for a start.


On the weekend it was very sunny and very wet as equally so.  I have been sky watching over the weekend and the clouds at night were really amazing to see.   You see huge big cumulonimbus clouds and along side this you see the full starry heaven.  The clouds were shining with the moon light shining on them.  Spectacular.  Mercury is up there in the sky to be seen easily at the present time.

It certainly is time for us to effect the changes we want to see occur in the world in any small way we can.

Beautiful Clouds from out the back

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Hey Ho Metgasco's gotta go!

Opponents of the industry have gathered at a test-drilling site at Doubtful Creek, near Kyogle. The gas company has started preparations for a drilling pad.

Peter Henderson says staff have the right to do their jobs without being hindered or harassed.  While Henderson sprouts utter garbage like this statement above, he see's the rights of farmers to clean water and uncontaminated land  as a joke.

Henderson has been documented many times laughing about the protests and calling Grandmothers who have never protested "EXTREMISTS" along with Andrew Stoner the deputy  Premier of N.S.W.  Who, surely bent over so he could take some more and where that is, I will let you make your own mind up about.  Culminating with Fraser  agreeing with Henderson.

English: Andrew Stoner at the open debate at the Wagga Wagga Civic Centre in the Council Room. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The pair of them need to see the re introduction of capital punishment. This would see these naughty boys severely dealt with.  Hung drawn and quartered comes to my mind.  That's because I was used to hearing statements like these about politicians needing this treatment back in my childhood and a life in a house that openly despised the skullduggery the politicians and mining companies get amongst in their daily lives.

The abject degradation caused by this process of extracting gas from the shale layers deep beneath the earth has already proven to be disastrous to the land and water.  The process contaminates the water and poisons everything it touches.  It becomes like something of a cancer under the skin.

So, if Henderson is that stupid that he believes his own lies, then he needs to go down with this sinking Metgasco Ship of Fools. The share price is dropping daily and its worth basically nothing now.  Does this mean his shareholders are losing faith in this deathly industry?

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