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- Title
Disputes over Coal Mining and Gas Drilling in an Australian Country Town.
- Authors
Marshall, Jonathan Paul
- Abstract
This paper explores the repatterning of civil society, the social technologies of persuasion and information, and the role of socio- political contexts in Narrabri (an Australian country town, in Western New South Wales), and its surrounding region between 2018 and 2020. In Narrabri the consequences of Carbon Oligarchy are observed, as the oligarchy promoted new gas fields and expansions of a coal mine in the region. This expansion is justified by supposedly offering a solution to Narrabri's apparent economic, agricultural and population decline problems, but for many local people, it worsens those problems. Conflict has been generated as a result, and the town has suffered painful fractures making the problems seem harder to solve because of the resulting disunity. The paper explores how the contest to justify the extraction also reduces the legitimacy of that extraction.
- Subjects
NEW South Wales; COAL mining; GAS well drilling; COAL gas; CIVIL society; RURAL population; COALFIELDS
- Publication
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023, Vol 15, Issue 1, p106
- ISSN
1837-5391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5130/ccs.v15.i1.8425