Concerns around allowing mining in the Pilliga Forest were shown in a documentary at Parliament House in Canberra last week.
Around this time last year, the National Native Title Tribunal ruled in favour of a $3 billion gas development to allow Santos to drill more than 850 coal seam gas wells in the native Pilliga Forest over the next 25 years.
The decision was controversial as the Pilliga Forest is sacred land to the Gomeroi people. Protests have ensued with Gomeroi people continuing the fight to protect the area from a massive coal and gas seam project.
The latest group to help convey their message is well regarded environmental organisation, the Australian Conservation foundation (ACF) who has taken the story on board in a new campaign that includes a documentary called “Heart of Country”…