Protect Australia's land and water from reckless coal and gas mining!

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Origin Energy are lining up to frack the Northern Territory this year, and in the firing line are some magical places, including recharge zones of Mataranka Hot Springs.

Traditional Owners have told us that Origin Energy has ignored their concerns about fracking and not properly laid out the risks involved.

We need to build a powerful movement of people willing to spread the word and take on Origin at every level, from their head offices to their board rooms.

In NSW right now, we're at a crucial cross-roads.  It's a stark choice - will we choose more damaging coal and gas mining, or will we choose clean food, clean air and clean energy?

We need members of parliament to know that we're demanding better choices for NSW.

Are you willing to meet your MP?

Let us know where you are, and give us your phone number, and we’ll give you a call to talk through the details.

Here’s the simple choice we’re asking them to make for New South Wales. Will they support our vision to:

1. Promote health and prosperity through agriculture and reliable clean energy
2. Protect communities, including Indigenous communities, and give them legal rights to object to mining
3. Protect important farmland, catchments and water resources from risky coal mining
4. Stop mining and exploration for unconventional gas (like CSG)

Will your local member make this choice for NSW’s future?

Make Coal Giants Pay for Mine Clean-Up

Our new report – Abandoned Mines in Queensland: Toxic Time-bomb or Employment Opportunity? – calls for big mining companies to cover the cost of rehabilitating the State’s abandoned mines and estimates that this would generate 6000 jobs in regional Queensland!

There are too many large abandoned mines, and the full cost of cleaning them up is too large and should not fall on taxpayers. If mines are levied to pay for the clean up, they can also create jobs in the process.

Why should we miss out on hundreds of schools and hospitals because we’re footing the bill for the mess left behind by irresponsible mining companies?

References:

• Dodging clean up costs Six tricks coal mining companies play (pdf)

• Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry Report (pdf)
• ACF Mine Rehab Stories
• Abandoned Mines in Queensland Report
• NSW Coal Pit Legacy
• Mine Rehab Closure Cost Report
• Rhetoric Vs Reality. Rehab performance snapshot

Will you join potato farmers in north west New South Wales, foodies in Brisbane, dairy farmers in Gippsland, Traditional Owners in the Gulf, wheat farmers in WA's breadbowl, cattlemen from the Territory, surfers from Sydney and even coal miners from the Hunter Valley in being part of the extraordinary movement to protect Australia's wide brown beauty, rich farmland, ancient culture and unique wildlife from damage by unconventional gas and coal mining?

Whoever you are, there's a place for you. Please join us!

Needed to persuade the staffer to take a message, had a good 5 minutes conversation and she promised to add my name to the list. She asked me where all these phone calls were coming from, I told her from the farming community, although I Live in a city, I support the farmers and care about the land, water and environment.