farmers' rights

Pilliga forest new CSG battlefront

By Kate Ausburn

The Pilliga State Forest in northern NSW will be turned into a gas field if the government approves Eastern Star Gas's (ESG) mining proposal for the region.

The proposal set out by ESG seeks to develop the Pilliga into the state's largest coal seam gas (CSG) project.

The development would include the drilling of more than 1000 gas wells and the clearing of vast stretches of native bushland to make way for gas pipelines and other associated infrastructure, such as a water treatment facility and access roads.

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Sydney Residents Against Coal Seam Gas - community meeting

The monthly organising meeting of SRACSG to organise activities to stop Coal Seam Gas mining in St Peters, and in Sydney as a whole. The group meets on the 4th Saturday of the month

Town and Country Hotel, Unwin's Bridge Rd, St Peters

Event date: 
Sat, 25/06/2011 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
Email: 
info@nogasmininginsydney.com
Website: 
http://www.nogasmininginsydney.com

Bowerography - Gasland Screening

Award-winning doco outlining the dangers of the Coal Seam Gas industry in the US....and coming to Australia!

The Bower, Hut 34, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville

Event date: 
Tue, 21/06/2011 - 6:00pm
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100306503395432

FUNDRAISER FOR STOP CSG ILLAWARRA

@ Headlands Hotel, 1 Headland Av, Austinmer

$10 on door. all proceeds got to STOP CSG ILLAWARRA

A NIGHT OF ART MUSIC PERFORMANCE BY....

CHANDRA LAMONT
JUSTIN FREW'S LOOSE INTENTIONS
GLAMMA RAYS
WIL MASSEY & the GHOST TRIO
BIG ERLE
KULTURE KLUB

donated ART ON SALE
RAFFLE

MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED !!!!

Tix on sale from monday 30th may

Event date: 
Fri, 01/07/2011 - 6:00pm - 11:30pm
Website: 
http://www.stop-csg-illawarra.org/
Phone: 
ENYA 0422 466 560, DONNA 0401 253 801

Venezuela's battle for food sovereignty

By Federico Fuentes, Caracas

When I asked Alfredo, a dairy farmer and president of the Prolesa milk processing co-operative in Tachira state, what food sovereignty meant to him, he said: “Food sovereignty is not only about being able to produce enough food to feed ourselves, it also means getting to a point where we can export food to other countries.

“There’s a global food crisis, and each day more and more people are going hungry. As Venezuelan campesinos [peasants] we need to realise that we have an obligation to the people of the world.”

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Save NSW's solar future - stop the tarrif cuts

Community meeting to protest the NSW Coalition Government breaking its election promise and moving to retrospectively cut the amount that was guaranteed to household, farmer and small business investors in solar energy. The Government's move is anti-environment, is punishing households that have supported green energy, and threatens green jobs and green industry.

Hosted by Greens MP Jamie Parker, and with John Kaye and others

Leichhardt Town Hall, corner of Marion and Norton Streets, Leichhardt.

Event date: 
Thu, 09/06/2011 - 6:30pm
Phone: 
9660 7586

Venezuela: Rural killers enjoy impunity

By Federico Fuentes

Having arrived back in Caracas after more than two weeks visiting various rural communities, leaders from the National Campesino Front Ezequiel Zamora (FNCEZ) told us that the bodies of two of their comrades, missing since April 12, had been found.

Jose Joel Torres Leves and Agustin Gamboa Duran were leading land reform activists in the Comunal City Antonio Jose de Sucre, in Barinas state.

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Public Forum on Environmental Implications of Coal Seam Gas and Coal Mining in NSW

Coal seam gas (CSG) is hailed as the energy source with a smaller carbon footprint than coal. However CSG coal mining proposed for the Liverpool Plains, Hunter Valley, St Peters, Warragamba Dam catchment could cause considerable environmental damage and loss of prime agricultural lands. Damage to aquifers, competition for groundwater and disposal of extracted salt water are concerns of farmers and rural towns, as are the chemicals injected for Fracking the coal seams to extract the gas. Fugitive emissions from pipes and well leaks can release damaging methane.

Event date: 
Mon, 16/05/2011 - 6:00pm
Email: 
Peter.Dart@acfonline.org.au
Website: 
http://www.nogasmininginsydney.com

Free Open Air Community Screening of "GASLAND- THE MOVIE"

Award winning film that exposes the dangers of Coal Seam Gas mining and 'fraccing' - that have destroyed environments and communities in the US, and are now coming for communities across Australia, including Sydney.

Addison Rd Centre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville

Event date: 
Thu, 05/05/2011 - 6:30pm
Email: 
info@nogasmininginsydney.com
Website: 
http://www.nogasmininginsydney.com

Venezuela: Land reform takes back 4 million hectares

By Tamara Pearson, Merida

The Venezuelan government will begin a process of recovering 300,000 hectares of land during April that have been in the hands of an unnamed English company, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in an interview during his trip to Uruguay.

Chavez said the process of taking back or “recovering” land had been fundamental to the revolutionary process led by his government. He said this especially so that “worker control” could “prevent companies from exploiting the land and workers, and getting rich and taking the earnings overseas”.

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