Gas Watch 75 - AGL has nowhere to go, unless we let them in
Date: 02-Dec-09
Author: Hunter Valley Protection Alliance
A map has been produced by the Broke Bulga Community Consultative Committee.
The map is of the Broke and Bulga areas which AGL Energy wants to turn into a gas field.
Overlays on the map defining all the buffers required by law around houses, orchards, vineyards, olive groves, water ways, dams and the like, show that AGL has only a very limited area in which to set up their gas wells. It certainly doesn't look to be anywhere near sufficient to enable a commercial gas extraction enterprise.
These buffer areas, designed to protect our lifestyles and our prime agricultural land, could be eroded, though, if landholders permit AGL onto their land by signing an Access Agreement.
If the community stays united in its resolve not to turn our village and surrounds into a gas field, with a possible gas treatment works near the village or at Spring Mountain, then you would have to think that AGL would pursue their gas extraction in less sensitive, and more remote, areas.
It is important that landowners NOT sign any access agreement with AGL.
If approached by AGL, please give the Hunter Valley Protection Alliance a ring on 0400 456374 for referral to a Solicitor for FREE legal advice
Save our groundwater. Save our environment. Save our kids.
Don't let AGL Energy onto your land. They can't buy it all.
PO Box 120 Broke NSW 2330
www.huntervalleyprotectionalliance.com
