Matt Damon ‘meets’ AACSG

Every so often there is a celebrity-backed Hollywood movie that throws a spotlight on a major issue. Such a film is Promised Land starring Matt Damon, where the story is about the buying up of mineral rights from farmers to drill for gas, using hydraulic fracturing...

Progressive Cinema: Mining the Truth

Progressive Cinema presents Mining the Truth at 7:30pm on Wednesday, 14th August at the the Armidale Club, 91 Beardy Street. Turntables Restaurant will be open for dinner from 6 pm. In 2012, sixty students  travelled to communities affected by coal and coal-seam gas...

Knitting Nannas Against Gas

If anyone in our area would like to start a “loop” of KNAG here (or a similarly humorous group) get in touch with the editor. Last year a few of us heard about the activities of a group of CSG activists in Lismore who had formed the Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG)....

Workshop on Strategic Questioning

Armidale Action on Coal Seam Gas invites you to a Workshop on Strategic Questioning facilitated by Adam Blakester, Executive Director of Starfish Enterprises, on Monday, 4th March, at 6pm in the Jacaranda Room at Hughes House behind Kent House, 141 Faulkner...

Workshop on Strategic Questioning

Armidale Action on Coal Seam Gas has been discussing how to engage the wider community for a while. On Annie Kia’s advice (Annie developed the CSG Free Community Strategy), the organising group decided to try Fran Peavey’s strategic questioning. If I...