By TANIA PHILLIPS
FEDERAL member for Richmond Justine Elliot has announced that the Tweed Labor Party State Electorate Council has called on the NSW State Government to declare the North Coast CSG mining-Free.
The Tweed State Electorate Council is the peak body which represents the three local Labor Party Branches (Banora Point, Tweed Heads and Tweed Coast) within the State Electorate of Tweed.
These branches have a combined membership of more than 150 rank and file Labor Party members.
“This motion shows how united local Labor is in our opposition to CSG mining,” she said.
“This is in stark contrast to the local National Party whose branch members continue to support policies and National Party MPs who encourage harmful CSG mining.
“Local National Party members should be ashamed that their legacy will be nothing more than gasfields across our region. I call on them to pass similar motions demanding the North Coast be declared CSG mining Free.”
However, State member for Tweed Geoff Provest said if Mrs Elliot was serious about her opposition to CSG she would put forward a Private Members Bill against it in Federal Parliament. Mr Provest said that his electorate of Tweed had “no commercially viable coal seam gas” and with drilling being prohibited within a 2km radius of urban development – there really was nowhere on the Tweed Coast that could be mined.
