April 13, 2015
The award-winning – and controversial – anti-CSG movie “Frackman” will be screening at The Satellite Cinema in Kingaroy on May 11, if enough tickets are sold online beforehand.
The film features former Darling Downs resident Dayne Pratzky who moved to the Chinchilla/Tara region for the quiet life, only to find himself in the middle of a coal seam gas storm.
Frackman tells the story of Dayne’s struggle against international gas companies. His protest began against what he described as “the industrialisation of residential and rural Queensland”, with up to 40,000 wells planned.
Lock the Gate spokesperson Julie Devine said the film was “an important representation” of what Queenslanders were suffering every day.
“CSG mining is sucking the life-blood out of Queensland, threatening our water, foodbowls and communities,” Ms Devine said.
“Frackman faithfully depicts the nightmare that many Queenslanders and other Australians are living through every day because they can’t sell their industrialised properties, but they can’t safely stay there either because their lives are so seriously impacted.”
The fight against the CSG industry has brought together some strange bedfellows, with both farmers and conservationists, conservatives and progressives, active in the “Lock The Gate” movement.
Sydney shock jock Alan Jones recommends Frackman: “If you care about our country, see it!” as does former Greens Senator Bob Brown: “No Australian voter should miss this film” .
Frackman won the Best Film and Best Environmental Film categories at the Byron Bay Film Festival last month.
The movie, which took five years to make, aims to spark a broad national conversation about the risks of Australia’s rush into coal seam gas development.
- Book tickets for the Kingaroy screening (62 more bookings needed)
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