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Queensland farmers stage protest
« on: March 12, 2012, 02:41:47 PM »
by PNA

Busloads of Australia's Queensland farmers marched to the major political parties' campaign offices in Ashgrove in protest against coal seam gas (CSG) mining across farm lands in the state, local media reported Monday.

The Queensland Greens and Katter's Australian Party joined the farmers in Monday's protest, according to the Australian Associated Press (AAP) reports.

They were marching on to the campaign offices of Labor incumbent Kate Jones and Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman.

Queensland farmers are asking voters in Ashgrove to think about the threat of mining destroying farming land and water when they cast their votes in the March 24 state election.

Farm adviser Graham Boulton told the AAP city folk needed to understand the devastating impacts of CSG on farmers' land.

"We are really concerned underground water will be contaminated or lost," Boulton said.

He said many farmers in southern, southeast and central west Queensland relied on underground water for irrigation and for drinking water.

John Cook, a cattle and grain farmer from the Toowoomba region, said both major parties had shown they were more interested in mining royalties than the threat posed by CSG mining to underground waterways and good farming land.

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