Coal Seam Gas Banner Drop in Australia

Pro­test­ers from the the Lock the Gate Alliance have tak­en part in a ban­ner drop on Brisbane’s Kan­ga­roo Point cliffs with sev­en giant ban­ners with anti-CSG mes­sages were attached to the cliff face.

Lock the Gate spokesman Innes Larkin said the ban­ners were a demon­stra­tion of the depth of com­mu­ni­ty oppo­si­tion to CSG min­ing in south­east Queens­land.

‘‘If the gov­ern­ment and min­ers think rur­al com­mu­ni­ties will just take this lying down, they’re wrong,’’ Mr Larkin said. ‘‘Peo­ple in the bush are angry and they are pre­pared to make a stand to pro­tect where they live, their soil and their water.’’ Lock the Gate have been run­ning a week of protests across the state, which began with a march and con­cert at Mur­willum­bah in north­ern NSW last Sun­day.