The Channel Country in south-west Queensland hosts some of the last remaining free-flowing desert rivers left on earth.
This beautiful ecosystem supports cultural connections tens of thousands of years, one of Australia’s largest clean green beef industries and a budding tourism industry. Past, present and future working together – supporting and caring for this important country to these communities.
But our Channel Country is under threat from the corporate fossil fuel industry who only have eyes for the dollars they will make destroying the land by fracking for gas and oil. Allowing large gas and oil industries on to this country will have devastating consequences for the wildlife, the people and the sustainable industries who rely on it.
The Channel Country is no place for gas fields!
In 2015 the Palaszczuk Government pledged to protect the Lake Eyre Basin’s rivers and Channel Country floodplains. After eight years of delay, the government will soon decide on the future of these precious river systems.
Gas companies are already on the march. The Channel Country and the communities that support and rely on it need us now to step up and show the government that corporate profits are not worth destroying this important place.
We need to remind the government that the only way to protect the Lake Eyre Basin’s rivers and delicate floodplains is to declare them as no-go zones for new oil and gas.
Join local graziers, traditional owners, and local communities in their fight to protect the Channel Country and floodplains.
