Stuck! When there’s a bit of rain on the black soil vertisol soils in north-west NSW very little gets through.
And the author knows – I bogged the Moree Champion editorial car and needed help from a farmer when I lived there!
Farmers know all about it too. So many are saying: how can you put a major gas pipeline through this country and expect it not to sink ?
A major pipeline is being planned from the Pilliga to take Santos’s coal seam gas down to the main Moomba pipeline, and the planned route of the 450km pipeline runs through some of the stickiest, boggiest country in NSW.
Here’s someone else who fell foul of the black soil bog:
Talk about knee deep in mud, I’d say waist deep!
The company building the pipeline APA is currently in discussion with landholders over the planned route. But many farmers are not happy. Some are planning to padlock farm gates to stop construction vehicles coming in. And the Warren Shire Council has voted not to co-operate with the project.
Anyway looks like the project might get bogged down in other matters such as an Environmental Impact Statement assessment process before it gets considered for approval by the Department of Planning. And it might even rain before a decision is made as well!