The Victorian Government have extended the moratorium on Fracking into a non-specified time in the future when legislation is passed through Parliament. This is in opposition to the hard won Right to Mine that was granted after the Royal Commission that followed the Eureka Stockade. It is likely that whatever legislation is passed will be tested in the Courts. This is a situation where land has often been in family hands sometimes for several generations and the current owners are being confronted by another group of people who want to do different things with the land. A new group of people with superior technology claiming they can make better use of the land – and more money – and they want the right to do it. The Right to Mine says that they can. Can anyone recognize parallels with history? A new group of people with superior technology turning up claiming that they can use the land better than the current owners? Has this happened in the recent past? Isn’t it unfortunate that the original Aboriginal owners of the land did not have a government banning the confiscation of land by people who had superior technology and who claimed they could make better use of the land. Why were not the original Aboriginal inhabitants desires taken into consideration? After all they did own the land and their lives were disrupted by the change in use of the land. What is different about the current situation? Would it not be more prudent to make mining regulations properly severe so that any company indulging in fracking would not dare to transgress for fear of harsh punishment? And have we not decided as a society that we are going to be governed by an open free market economy? Does anyone agree that there is a certain amount of hypocritical behavior operating here?
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