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ULTIMATUM AT FULLERTON FRONTLINE

Police have begun issuing obstruction notices to protesters, maintaining a blockade against coal seam gas exploration at Fullerton Cove, north of Newcastle.

Two women have locked themselves onto a tractor as part of the blockade, which is heading into its fourth day.

Dart Energy has state and federal approval to conduct test drilling on a private property.

An expected confrontation between police and protesters didn’t eventuate this morning – they’ve now been told to allow workers access to the property, or face arrest.

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  1. So is it a simple exploratory drill wellreliant on simple tick a box REFs or is it Gas Energy Crisis that Minister Hartcher has hatched, the sky wil fall in unless we Dart Fullerton Cove into Coal Seam Gas fields with connecting pipelines across the landscape? I think I would much rather an Energy Crisis in my Country rather than any Water, Health, Food, or Environmental Crisis. Economy should not be an excuse for stupidity.

  2. Great work Blockaders!! I would rather clean water, quiet rural landscapes, and clean air, with no pipelines, no well heads pockmarking the countryside, no fugitive emissions making people ill, no methane migration and bubbling rivers or uncontrolled burning holes in the ground (Dalby-esque), no noisy fracking operations, no intruders wandering all over my property at ant time of the day or night, no dead towns, and all the other negative impacts similar to what this industry has brought to Queensland. Queensland has had CSG for 16 years and is still broke. So there is really not much economic benefit to even offset the imposts.

  3. Congrates to the blockaders, all communities should work together to ensure that our valuable water resources are protected. Gloucester supports you. Tony

  4. Dart is claiming that these people aren’t locals. The only people not local is Dart. Great work everyone. We will win

  5. This Dart company needs to pack up and go home, they are not locals and have no right to push their way in to our land, our neighborhood, our future. This industry had not been proven safe and we should not have to pay for the mistake of our GOVERNMENT not ensuring that it was safe before signing our country away to foreign companies. They now know that it is very dangerous, there is a fire still burning out of control from a methane fire coming up from underground on a CSG companies land as we speak in QLD. There are families having to leave their properties in QLD due to illness from CSG, and others who are trapped due to the inability to sell their property NEAR gas wells. This industry MUST STOP and NOW.. A Royal Commission must look into the links of politicians from both sides who have signed Australia up to CSG without regard for the safety of the very people who voted them in. Alan Jones has a folder an inch think of ex politicians who signed off on gas who now work for these companies. Australians will NOT put up with this internal attack on it’s own people.

  6. One day Fullerton Cove, next day, any community in Australia. Are we an economy, or a society? It seems that state and federal governments work to represent businesses, not people and communities. Companies like Dart Energy, and the politicians who support them, will always throw in the red herring of local jobs and increased employment, but what good is money, if there is no safe drinking water, contaminated soils, destroyed natural habitats, dangerous and noxious gases released into the atmosphere? If communities are destroyed by coal seam gas mining, where do they go? Perhaps Dart Energy’s John McGoldrick would enjoy a few coal seam gas wells in his backyard. Somehow, I think he’d be making the biggest noise to prevent it. He and the other board members, along with the company shareholders, are living the high life at the expense of ordinary people. It’s time to put people before profits, and put an end to Dart and Arrow Energy’s ambition to turn Australia into one big coal seam gas mine.

  7. Politicians are naive if they think this protest against CSG is going to go away. Before the political parties eventually get voted out of office permanently for failure to listen to the community, the sites will be blocked, the roads will be blocked, and the government will have costs way above their capacity to cover as the courts and jails get filled with ordinary honest and decent citizens exercising our right to object to the destruction of our countryside and water tables. We on the North Coast are with you all the way at the Fullerton blockades. Bring on a government of Independent citizens.

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