Dan Lanzini interviewed from the Pilliga Forest about the threatened gasfield (03/08/19)

2019-08-03

At the heart of an agrarian landscape long since cleared of vegetation lies half a million hectares of rare intact temperate eucalypt woodland. The Pilliga forest. It’s more than a wildlife refuge. This area feeds clean water into the Great Artesian Basin — the crucial life support system for much of inland Australia. It’s here that the company Santos plans to drill up to 850 coal seam gas wells. (According to the Wilderness Society) For years Dan Lanzini has been on the front line of th...

At the heart of an agrarian landscape long since cleared of vegetation lies half a million hectares of rare intact temperate eucalypt woodland. The Pilliga forest.

It’s more than a wildlife refuge. This area feeds clean water into the Great Artesian Basin — the crucial life support system for much of inland Australia. It’s here that the company Santos plans to drill up to 850 coal seam gas wells. (According to the Wilderness Society)

For years Dan Lanzini has been on the front line of the community action to stop the Pilliga being pillaged by SANTOS' plan to release as much methane safely stored under it as they can and contaminate the precious aquifer in the process. He took the time to speak to Environmental As Anything about this vital action.

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