{"id":13003,"date":"2016-03-30T19:21:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T09:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=13003"},"modified":"2024-07-03T04:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T18:27:07","slug":"please-take-the-time-to-understand-this-vital-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=13003","title":{"rendered":"Please Take The Time To Understand This Vital Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DefendOurFarmersTodayAndOurFuture\"<\/a>
\nLock The Gate Alliance is a national coalition of people from across Australia uniting to protect our common heritage- our land, water and communities – from unsafe mining. I received this email today:
\nDear Tom,
\nMy name is Sarah Ciesiolka and I am a farmer.
\nMy family lives and farms a few kilometres downstream from Santos\u2019 proposed Narrabri Coal Seam Gas Project in the Pilliga Forest. Each year, year in, year out, our farm produces 50 million potatoes, 1000 tonnes of peanuts and enough wheat to make 3.3 million loaves of bread. We rely entirely on underground water to irrigate our crops, for drinking and for everyday household use.
\nThat is why we are fighting so hard against Santos\u2019 plans for an industrial gasfield near us \u2013 the only one now proposed in New South Wales, and why we need your help to stop it.
\nThe risks associated with the CSG industry are so significant that they are considered “uninsurable”.
\nWe approached our own insurance company to mitigate the risk of CSG operations in our locality and to safeguard our assets and livelihoods but were advised that this was not possible.
\nWe’d feel like we were completely on our own, if it wasn’t for Lock the Gate Alliance.
\nLock the Gate is a movement of people like me and people like you, city and country, working together to protect the water, landscapes and people of New South Wales and the whole country.
\nThanks to the work of people in my community, Santos’ project is terribly delayed and worth nothing to them.
\nNext week in Sydney, our local group will be in court challenging the approval of their CSG wastewater treatment plant, which the government gave them without proper consideration of the risks.
\nLock the Gate will be there with us, bringing city and country people together, united for our love of Australia, its people, its ancient water, its culture and wildlife.
\nWe need you too. Will you join us? http:\/\/www.lockthegate.org.au\/join
\nWith your help, and the help of Lock the Gate, we can keep my region and its food-producing lands gasfield free.
\nThank you,
\nSarah Ciesiolka
\nhttp:\/\/www.lockthegate.org.au\/join<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lock The Gate Alliance is a national coalition of people from across Australia uniting to protect our common heritage- our land, water and communities – from unsafe mining. I received this email today: Dear Tom, My name is Sarah Ciesiolka and I am a farmer. My family lives and farms a few kilometres downstream from … <\/p>\n

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