Speakers:
Deborah Porter, Moorabool Environment Group
Victoria McKenzie-McHarg, Environment Victoria
WA company Mantle Mining are planning to dig a huge, open-cut, brown coal mine in Bacchus Marsh, then dry and export this coal overseas. They already have an exploration license, and despite strong local opposition, are poised to commence test drilling at a number of sites in Bacchus Marsh. If successful, this project would:
* destroy local farmland
* threaten ground water
* place an experimental coal mining & drying industry close to local communities and schools
* create a new coal export industry in Victoria
* push our planet further towards climate catastrophe
Come and send a strong message to the government and the companies involved that Victorians will not abide new coal mines, particularly on prime agricultural land.