{"id":570565,"date":"2010-05-18T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-8390683970271684336"},"modified":"2010-05-19T06:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:16:27","slug":"queensland-farmers-call-for-moratorium-on-coal-seam-gas-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570565","title":{"rendered":"Queensland farmers call for moratorium on coal seam gas mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Courier Mail reports that Queensland farmers continue to be unhappy about <a href=\"http:\/\/peakenergy.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/coal-seam-gas-producers-new-masters-of.html\">coal seam gas<\/a> developments on mining land &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/queensland\/surat-basin-farmers-call-for-moratorium-on-coal-seam-gas-mining\/story-e6freoof-1225868715546\">Surat Basin farmers call for moratorium on coal seam gas mining<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MORE than 500 farmers who attended a protest meeting called for the government to place a moratorium on coal seam gas mining.<\/p>\n<p>Growers lined up one kilometre of farm machinery at a paddock at Cecil Plains west of Toowoomba in a show of strength to demonstrate they are capable of blocking mining company access to their land.<\/p>\n<p>The farmers face up to 40,000 gas wells being drilled across some of the state\u2019s best food-producing land.<\/p>\n<p>Protest organiser Dave Armstrong said famers were gearing up for the fight of their lives. \u201cWhat other choice do we have?\u201d Mr Armstrong asked. \u201cThey have put us in a corner.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2189376323632485\";\n\/* 728x90, created 5\/18\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3866831776\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9864176-8390683970271684336?l=peakenergy.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vEH7kaROkpjC4NFBX_Wvk84WD5s\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vEH7kaROkpjC4NFBX_Wvk84WD5s\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vEH7kaROkpjC4NFBX_Wvk84WD5s\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vEH7kaROkpjC4NFBX_Wvk84WD5s\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courier Mail reports that Queensland farmers continue to be unhappy about coal seam gas developments on mining land &#8211; Surat Basin farmers call for moratorium on coal seam gas mining. MORE than 500 farmers who attended a protest meeting called for the government to place a moratorium on coal seam gas mining. Growers lined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}