Photographs from yesterday’s ‘Sydney Stop Coal Seam Gas’ rally on Gadigal country, where hundreds of people marched through Sydney’s CBD from Circular Quay to NSW Parliament House to demand the halt to gas mining in the Pilliga Forest and surrounding Gomeroi lands in north western NSW.
The march stopped off at Santos headquarters to deliver a letter of protest to the company that is currently building the gas fields near Narrabri. Gomeroi people, farmers, unionists and environmentalists travelled across NSW to attend.
The rally was held on a day where hazard reduction burning in preparation for what is expected to be another scorching summer saw smoke choke Sydney and register the fourth worst air quality of any city in the world.
The protest was organised by the Lock the Gate Alliance, Unions NSW, Farmers NSW. The Country Women’s Association and a contingent of Gomeroi people.
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