WOW! This is the score at 9.30pm on 13 November. Three days ago, when I wrote the last post and pointed readers to the poll the ‘No’ vote was 84%. Well done people.
If you know of anyone who might not have voted on this, please ask them to use this link to register their opposition to coal seam gas exploration or extraction in the Lockyer Valley Region:
http://www.gattonstar.com.au/polls/2014/11/06/do-you-support-mining-lockyer-valley/
Let’s keep these destructive activities out of the Lockyer Valley Region – not just the productive farmland in the valley bottoms, but the ridges and forested areas as well. This industry is far too impacting to be allowed anywhere near our farms, homes, schools, businesses, or natural environment areas.
You can check on the latest poll figures here:
http://www.gattonstar.com.au/polls/2014/11/06/do-you-support-mining-lockyer-valley/results/
Related to this, CSIRO has released the results of their 2014 Citizen Survey – Australian attitudes towards mining. See http://www.slideshare.net/turloughguerin/australian-attitudes-towards-mining