The first meeting of the 17 Group for the year 2012 will be held in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End on Wednesday the 1st of February at 7pm. The speaker will be Drew Hutton, national president of the Lock the Gate Alliance, and he will lead off a discussion on the mining boom and the current coal seam gas issue.
Topic
The green-farmer alliance against coal and coal seam gas and why the mining boom is bad for the Australian economy
Bio
Drew Hutton is a long-term environmental and social justice activist. He was a founder of both the Queensland and Australian Greens in the early nineties and in more recent times has become a spokesperson for Friends of the Earth (Aust) and the national president of the Lock the Gate Alliance. He pioneered the alliance between rural landowners and predominantly urban environmentalists that has locked the gate on coal and coal seam gas companies attempting to force their way on to farm land, especially in Queensland and NSW, and his alliance is currently blockading attempts by these companies to come into communities where they are not wanted.
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