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Pilliga and Leard Forest Coal & Coal Seam Gas Tag Along Tours

Added by editor, on August 27th, 2014
Friday, 26 SeptoSunday, 28 Sep
Friday, 24 OcttoSunday, 26 Oct

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This is a not for profit tour. It is to educate about the dire impacts of coal seam gas mining / coal mining 

See the beauty of Leard and Pilliga Forests. And learn first hand the damage coal seam gas mining has caused in the Pilliga and open cut coal mining is causing in Leard Forest.

Day 1

  1. Camp at Pilliga Hot Bore Baths or stay at Pilliga Hotel.

Day 2

  1. 8.30am: Leave Pilliga. Bring packed lunch, snacks, drinks, plenty of water, hat & sunscreen.
  2. Check out Gwagebar. Barnaby Joyce, MP for New England has his ‘weekender’ near here.
  3.  Visit Pilliga Forest Discovery Centre at Baradine, collect maps and leaflets.
  4. Leave Baradine 11.30AM, travel 33 km on unsealed road 50 minutes to Dandry Gorge.
  5. 12.30pm Lunch and walk at Sculptures in the Scrub at Dandry Gorge in The Pilliga Forest.
  6. 3pm Leave Dandry Gorge for the Sandstone Caves, distance 90km- 1 ¼ hr travel time,
  7. Camp at Pilliga Pottery or Pilliga Protection Camp.  Page 12
  8. Pilliga Pottery offers meals and accommodation or camping. The Pilliga Protection Camp moves from as required, and may be closed.
  9. You may be driving up to 320km by the end of the day!!

Day 3:

  1. Depart 8.30am. Bring lunch snacks, drinks, plenty of water, hat & sunscreen.
  2. If camp members are available as tour guides, tour the coal seam gas fields, see drilling rig and production wells
  3. Visit spill at Bohena 7 on Newell Hwy
  4. Visit Leewood on Newell Hwy
  5. Refuel at Shell service station on Newell Highway  Have your lunch here.
  6. Visit Front-line Action on Coal (FLAC) camp at Cliff Wallace’s farm: Wando, Black Mountain Creek Road, Maules Creek.
  7. Tour the Leard Forest, discover views of Whitehaven Coal Mine with an activist.

Please fill in the Leard Pilliga Tour Registration and email the form to me if you would like to attend a Pilliga Leard tour.

Costs- Sunday nights accommodation at Pilliga Pottery $30 share room, $8 camping, or book your own room. The option to  have meals at the restaurant. Excellent pottery for sale.

Free camping at Pilliga bore Baths, or stay at the pub. Usually dinner at the pub.

Contribute to food at Leard Camp. 

TOUR DATES

Fri 26th, Sat 27th, Sun 28th, Sept 2014

Fri 24th, Sat 25th, Sun 26th Oct 2014

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