“The first real blockade I went to was at Glenugie about two
years ago. I slept in a tent for the first time in my life.” Anne had joined
coal seam gas protesters trying to prevent Metgasco accessing a drilling site. Getting
up before dawn, surviving on little more than a cup of tea all the hot January
day, she faced the police riot squad as they marched her slowly but
determinedly out of the way. “They kept pushing me in the back and I said, ‘Do
not push me! I’m a 76 year old grandmother and I will not be pushed!’”
Now a familiar face of the anti-CSG movement and Knitting
Nannas Against Gas, Anne had never been an activist before. But when the
British-born grandmother heard of the threat of CSG being mined near her home she
could not sit idly by.
