Who's going to protect Mr Casey's rights as a farmer and land-holder? Some anti CSG protesters thuggish behaviours revealed!

Farmer, family abused by CSG protesters

Farmer Steve Casey and his grand-daughter Bella, 4, at his Doubtful Creek property near Casino, which has been under seige. Picture: Heath Missen Source: The Australian

CATTLE farmer Steve Casey is not sorry he allowed mining company Metgasco to explore for coal-seam gas on his property, despite the abuse and intimidation he says he has suffered at the hands of the protesters who have been camped at the main gate to his property for five weeks. 
  
"It's made our lives pretty difficult," Mr Casey said yesterday of the standoff at his farm at Doubtful Creek, near Casino in northern NSW.
"Everything you do, they've got a camera at your face.
"They hurl abuse at my wife, my daughter and my granddaughter."

CSG companies say the behaviour of anti-CSG protesters around NSW shows opposition to the industry is driven by zealots who do not represent the mainstream community.
Claim and counter-claim over a series of ugly confrontations at Doubtful Creek have intensified in the wake of tighter rules for CSG exploration in NSW, which Premier Barry O'Farrell announced last week and said came after the state government "listened to the community."

In an unsigned letter to the local newspaper last week, a police officer claimed the protesters at Doubtful Creek spat on him and threatened his family.
The letter brought a response from local police chief Michael Dempsey, who said, "The majority of people protesting recently have been doing so peacefully and within the confines of the law."
This was echoed by protest organiser Dean Draper, a neighbour of Mr Casey, who said the protesters were worried about "the industrialisation of our rural lands".

But Mr Casey said he was sick and tired of having "Shame!" and "other bits of abuse" shouted at him over his fence."It doesn't worry me so much because I'm a grown man, but my daughter is only a month off having a baby and she's intimidated," he said.

Police have had to be called to the property several times a day to force the 40 or so protesters to allow Metgasco workers access. There were three arrests earlier this month.
Metgasco boss Peter Henderson said yesterday: "The vast majority of protesters at our sites do not represent mainstream community values."
Mr Casey said 800 litres of diesel fuel went missing from a tank near the boundary of his farm recently, and he suspected the protesters were involved.
"I agreed to it and I'm not sorry I did," he said of the Metgasco drilling. "I just see it as a big thing for Casino."

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