Farmers and environmentalists rally at Parliament House

Farmers, environmentalists and concerned citizens took their combined voices to state parliament at midday on Wednesday the 4th of August to demand that the Queensland Government protects Queensland's cropping land, ground water and rural communities from coal and coal seam gas mining.

The protest has been prompted by the Queensland Government's plans to double coal exports and allow 40 000 gas wells on the Darling Downs. This has brought together farmers and environmentalists from across the state.

The groups Friends of the Earth, Save our Darling Downs, Community Climate Network Queensland, Friends of Felton, the Queensland Conservation Council and Six Degrees are all concerned about the threats posed to valuable cropping land, rural communities, the Great Artesian Basin and our climate.

Source: Channel 10 News, Brisbane, 4th August 2010.

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