Gas Watch 86 - AGL extends core business to compete with local farmers
Date: 27-May-10
Author: Hunter Valley Protection Alliance
One would have thought that the core business of AGL Energy was, in fact, energy.
But no.
The local AGL staffy, Siobhan Barry, boasts that AGL Energy has employed local winemakers to process fruit from the vineyard on their Spring Mountain Coal Seam Methane Gas site, and will soon be producing their first vintage.
So, not only is AGL Energy threatening our water supply, threatening our vegetation, threatening to construct an industrial complex next to the Broke village, threatening our environment, AGL Energy is now specifically threatening the livelihoods of local winegrowers.
AGL Energy is not satisfied, it appears, with its Coal Seam Methane Gas project, it wants to ensure that the small wine producers of Broke and Bulga suffer. It is hard enough to sell your fruit and wine in this current wine glut, low priced wine, market, without a cashed up energy company squeezing even more smaller growers out.
Is there no end to their ruination of the Hunter Valley.
PO Box 120 Broke NSW 2330
www.huntervalleyprotectionalliance.com
May, 2010.
Tel: 02 6579 1062
