Progressive Cinema and Armidale Action on Coal Seam Gas and Mining present
The Demon Fault
Tuesday, 21st October, at 7:30pm,
at the Armidale Club, 91 Beardy Street.
The subject of the film is a gold mine on the Timbarra plateau above the Demon Fault line not far from Tenterfield. Aboriginal elder Uncle Eric Walker warns “There’s a curse on that gold! And digging it out makes people go crazy!”
The Demon Fault delves into the lives of several very different Australians, who find themselves drawn into a deadly serious yet crazy battle over this mine. Prejudices and accusations abound when miners, farmers, environmentalists, police, politicians, and Aboriginal people take their fight from the battlefields of NSW’s Great Dividing Range to the law courts of Australia. All kinds of weapons from legal loopholes to dirty tricks get brought into this real-life Australian drama.
At a time when mining applications abound, The Demon Fault provides a cautionary tale about the undisclosed dangers of mining, as well as an insightful and entertaining look at the spectrum of actors involved in the contemporary environmental struggle.
In support of the continuing campaign to protect the Leard and Pilliga forests from mining, this month you are cordially invited to a fundraising screening of The Demon Fault. For those who can’t make the screening, donations are welcome and can be sent to the Leard Pilliga Fundraiser at the Community Mutual BSB 932000 A/C 738323.
Dear all,
Further to the publicised documentary screening below, I thought the following may be of interest.
On page 5 of today’s The Armidale Express, there is a story on a gold mine being considered next to Uralla.
Article title: Open-cut mine for Uralla considered
Journalist: Lucas Forbes
In January this year, The Armidale Express also ran a story in relation to Hillgrove mine. I had a Letter to the Editor published on it sometime in the last week of January.
The preceding are, of course, on top of the coal seam gas mines being pushed for the middle of the Pilliga State Forest and the Leard State Forest.
Best regards,
Tom Livanos.
tom.369@hotmail.com
Armidale, New South Wales
Friday 17 October 2014
I remember this mining activity and the poems written about it by Chris Wharton from Glen Innes.
Apparently the only thing preventing the $6 million/year Grafton-Yamba prawn industry from being poisoned out of existence by a spill of gold mining cynanide leachate was a single sheet of black plastic 30 thousandths of an inch thick on the bottom of a holding dam.