Farmers protest against the proposed NSW Shenhua coal mine - The Greens

The Greens attended a protest rally in New South Wales over the Shenhua coal mine planned to be dug in the middle of prime agricultural land. Both the Lieberals and Labor voted against a Greens motion to stop the mine going ahead.

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This from the email:

It was a weekend of hospitality and inspiration at the Harvest Festival on the Liverpool Plains. 

I joined about 750 people to amplify our call that the Shenhua Watermark mine proposed for this area should not go ahead. 

The huge turnout was not surprising when you look at the damage that would occur if this mine went ahead—the ruin of this valuable food bowl, such fertile land. The water aquifers that feed this land would be broken, and would cause damage to Aboriginal sacred sites. 

At the workshop with local Indigenous people we were shocked to hear Dolly Talbott, a Gomeroi woman, speak about how local Aboriginal people are no longer able to visit many of the sacred sites. 

Unbelievably, Shenhua plans to remove the grinding grooves offsite, then dig their massive open-cut coal pit and then supposedly put the grinding grooves back. This is farcical. 

The betrayal of successive Labor and Liberal-National governments on this issue is massive. 

The full story is yet to be revealed because Ian Macdonald, whom ICAC found had corruptly issued lucrative mining licences in the Hunter Valley, started the deal with Shenhua Australia Holdings.