licences covering the NSW North Coast were revoked by the state government. On the Liverpool Plains of NSW near
Gunnedah, some of Australia’s richest agricultural land, the farming community has been in revolt against short-sighted plans for coal mines such as the ANZ bank-funded Maules Creek mine that opened in mid-2015. During construction, there were hundreds of arrests following lock-ons. Prominent in the news has been the
major protest in America, targeting the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline that is being constructed to transport fracked shale oil about 1,900 kilometres from North Dakota to Illinois. Members of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota have concerns about it being routed under the Missouri River that they depend on for water, given the track record of oil spills elsewhere. Since the start of the protest in April, 2016, numbers have swelled as non-Indians and members of tribes from all over the States and beyond have arrived to stand in support.
PHASE-OUT AND DESPERATION This global grassroots groundswell of protest is being heard, with fracking bans so far implemented in France, Bulgaria, and Scotland, and with moratoria in several other countries. Onshore gas mining has been banned in Victoria following a community campaign, and the Northern Territory and Tasmania have recently introduced their own moratoria. In the face of strong community opposition at Camden and Gloucester in NSW, AGL is in the process of exiting the CSG sector. Time is not on the side of fossil fuel
interests, and delays in the rollout of their projects may result in their never seeing the light of day. In this light, the actions of some governments suggest raw desperation. NSW has new anti- protest laws that target CSG, with protestors facing up to seven years jail and the fine for trespass increasing by over 1000 percent to $5,550. Perhaps in order to emphasise that it wants to penalise individuals more harshly than
gas corporations, simultaneously the minimum fine for illegal gas mining was radically shrunk by at least 99.5 percent to $5,000. In North Dakota, protectors have been
attacked using security dogs, pepper spray, beanbag rounds, rubber bullets, concussion grenades, tasers, water cannons, and have been subjected to humiliating strip searches and acoustic weaponry capable of causing hearing loss. At critical times, mobile coverage has been disrupted, interrupting feeds and preventing the media from reporting on events as they unfold. In response to these developments, 1.5 million people symbolically stood in solidarity with the protest by changing their Facebook locations to Standing Rock. Elsewhere in the States, two independent filmmakers are currently facing decades in jail for filming anti-pipeline protests.
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