Glenn Lazarus (Queensland, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

CSG mining has been banned in other countries because of its harmful, long-term economic, health, social and environmental impacts. It is extremely dangerous and needs to be stopped in Australia. I urge everyone in this room to go for a drive into our agricultural heartland to see the damage, the destruction and the devastation caused by CSG mining.

The Senate inquiry into unconventional gas mining heard from families with sick children and from farmers, who used to be in favour of CSG mining who have been treated with absolute disrespect and now argue against it. It is destroying rural Queensland communities and the fact that property owners cannot refuse access to their land is an absolute outrage.

I call for immediate action on this issue and I call on the Greens to show some heart and soul, and to support the people of Queensland and the rest of Australia from being decimated by unconventional gas mining by supporting the inclusion of the Landholders' Right to Refuse (Gas and Coal) Bill 2015 in this week's sitting.