TARA is as mad as hell and is not going to take it any more. The tiny town on the western Darling Downs says it has repeatedly been maligned by Greens and "blockies" demanding an end to coal-seam gas mining.
Tara has been depicted as a town full of rebels. I couldn't find any the day I visited.
Suggestions that Tara is leading the charge against gas is a misconception advanced by the media. The truth is that most Tara townsfolk support the gas industry with the appropriate environmental safeguards. And so do businesses in the district.
Yet Tara has been repeatedly portrayed on television as the town backing the infamous Lock the Gate campaign.
It isn't.
"Tara is getting the blame for all the protesters but we have never had a placard waved in Tara," says 55-year-old Richard Thornbury. "Why would we want to lock the gates? Gas has brought jobs and wealth and the hope of a more prosperous future."
Tara business leaders dismiss demonstrators as a rent-a-crowd.
Thornbury, whose family arrived in Tara in 1936, is president of Tara Futures, a community group set up to combat negative images of the town.
"This is a group of people who are devaluing our homes, our town and our blocks of land..."The workers they abuse and threaten are the same people paying the taxes that supply their benefits," it says.
"These people who do not represent us fraudulently continue to scream 'Hands off Tara!'.
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WAAM was formed 18 months ago as a vehicle for stopping and closing down the Unconventional Gas Industry.
We did not count on the corrupt actions of The Greens and the treachery of Drew Hutton. WAAM Inc. has become more of a liability than an asset, and so today we voted to wind up the group.
We, as individuals will still work towards closing down the UCG and CSG programs, we will still provide a force to oppose mining, and we will still work to expose the ongoing corruption of Big Environment.
This is a restructuring move to by-pass the corrupted Lock The Gate Alliance and the lies of Drew Hutton.
Clive Palmer was right to question where Hutton’s money comes from, there are big questions surrounding the shadows that stand behind the serial loser, and the fact that Greenpeace has admitted taking $60,000 from the Rockerfella Foundation simply tells me that Greenpeace in Australia is as corrupt as it was when I resigned in disgust.
The task now is to drive the real issues into the public arena, to counter the stupidity of the ever pathetic Dayne Pratsky and the ever dishonest Drew Hutton.
This shall be the final post on here, we are going to be operating in a different way in the future.
Cheers,
Graeme
We did not count on the corrupt actions of The Greens and the treachery of Drew Hutton. WAAM Inc. has become more of a liability than an asset, and so today we voted to wind up the group.
We, as individuals will still work towards closing down the UCG and CSG programs, we will still provide a force to oppose mining, and we will still work to expose the ongoing corruption of Big Environment.
This is a restructuring move to by-pass the corrupted Lock The Gate Alliance and the lies of Drew Hutton.
Clive Palmer was right to question where Hutton’s money comes from, there are big questions surrounding the shadows that stand behind the serial loser, and the fact that Greenpeace has admitted taking $60,000 from the Rockerfella Foundation simply tells me that Greenpeace in Australia is as corrupt as it was when I resigned in disgust.
The task now is to drive the real issues into the public arena, to counter the stupidity of the ever pathetic Dayne Pratsky and the ever dishonest Drew Hutton.
This shall be the final post on here, we are going to be operating in a different way in the future.
Cheers,
Graeme
