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You see that? -Yeah, what is it?
There's no one left.
They've just left the whole site.
They've locked it up.
This gives us perfect access to everything.
Here we go, look.
We'll just take a sample of this.
♪♪
That's chemicals.
[Vomits]
[Spits]
Here comes a truck, turn it off, turn it off,
turn it off, turn it off.
Let's go. Go, let's go. Quick, quick, let's go.
Let's go! Let's go, boys! Let's go!
♪♪
I wasn't born into this kind of thing.
I used to cut down trees and drive a diesel forward
drive and harvest kangaroos.
I'm the worst environmental activist
this world has ever seen, but in the end,
I realized that it was the only way
to get something done.
♪♪
[Thunder crashes]
♪♪
♪ Someday I'll have money ♪
♪ Money isn't easy to find ♪
♪ By the time it's come by ♪
♪ I'll be gone ♪
♪ I'll sing my song, and I'll be gone ♪
♪♪
♪ Someday I'll have loving ♪
♪ Loving isn't easy to find ♪
♪ By the time it's come by ♪
♪ I'll be gone ♪
♪ I'll sing my song, and I'll be gone ♪
♪ Oh ♪
[Dogs barking]
Hello, babies, come on.
Come, now, swim, let's go.
♪♪
I lived in Sydney.
It was some of the best times of my life.
Throughout my 20s, it was surfing and partying,
and then I hit 30.
What did I have?
Nothing, so it was time to knuckle down
and make a future for myself.
[Laughs]
Bring it here, Knuckles, come on!
I go on the Internet, and I found some land in Tara.
It was called the Tara Estates.
The dream was at 40 years of age, have 1,000 acres.
♪♪
When you move out there, you have nothing.
You're like a settler.
So you've got to build your own home.
You need to supply your own power and water.
♪♪
People in town, they call us blockies.
A blockie is a pioneer,
the people that move onto the land,
whether it be in a tent or a caravan,
and just start having a go.
♪ Follow, follow the sun ♪
♪ And which way the wind blows ♪
I'd forgotten what it was like to be in the country.
♪ When this day is done ♪
So I started hunting again where we're going camping a lot
and doing lots of walks in mountains
and really got back to, like, okay, this is better.
♪ Set your intentions ♪
♪ Dream with care ♪
♪ Tomorrow is a new day for everyone ♪
♪♪
Man: Coal seam gas is an industrial
and resource wonder.
Man #2: This has been a fantastic resource.
It's been identified and developed
in a very short period of time.
Woman: More than $45 billion of CSG investment
is already breathing new life into country town.
Hundreds of jobs have been created.
New export markets will deliver thousands more,
and opportunities for a whole new generation of young people
are on their way.
Pratzky: I'd heard around town the gas was coming.
At that point, I thought, "Wow, jobs, money,
we're really gonna move forward."
This whole community was gonna move forward,
and my land was only going to increase in value.
♪♪
The first problems I had with the industry was the noise.
The noise would just reverberate from kilometers away
into my lounge room, and I couldn't sleep.
It just went on and all day, all night, all day, all night,
and it was hell.
♪♪
The first thing I got was a guy just driving in the driveway
and said, "We're gonna sink a well down
"the back of your place, and if you don't like it,
"there's nothing you can do about it,
"so you might as well just sign this here.
We'll bring the rig in and pay $1,500 a year."
I just thought, "Yeah, right, you can just go
and get yourself fucked."
He said, "I'll take you to Land Court,
and they'll allow them to do it."
Straight away with any proud Australian, you stand up.
This is my land. I pay the rates.
I pay the mortgage.
You come in here as a guest,
and you treat me with a bit of respect,
and if you want to come in, you'll come in invited.
You will not come over top of me.
♪♪
This is mostly farming country.
Families have been here for generations,
but our land sits on top of billions
of dollars' worth of gas, and the industry and government,
they're gonna stop at nothing to get it
whether me and my neighbors liked it or not.
♪♪
It's a full production line. Isn't it?Yeah.
[Speaks indistinctly]
Go and jump on the bus, eh?
-[Speaks indistinctly] -Bye.
Hey, you! Stop that!
How many wells do you got on the place?
We've got seven wells on 860 acres.
The first one went down seven years ago.
The next six went in within a year.
You hear that? That's venting gas.
They go up all the time. You can stand here all the time.
They go pshh. All the time.
I feel sick.
There's gas going off again.
Honestly feel sick.
Yeah, kids are down with diarrhea all the time.
I had another little girl up to the hospital the other day,
and it's a constant time with the kids being sick
all the time, and everyone in town all say,
"Oh, you must be doing so well out of it.
"The Queensland Gas are just doing so well for the town.
Yous must be doing so well for it."
Well, come live here for a little while.
Plus their gas isn't even ours.
It belongs to some other bloody country,
and they're doing this to our backyard.
I always wanted to put a house up here,
but I don't like the view anymore.
We're being the guinea pigs because we signed up
seven, nearly eight years ago for the first well,
and then they just invaded.
They haven't stopped invading us.
We get $250 a well.
For every well, we have money plus.
Big Ben across the road here that's only when --
80 meters from our house,
but it's okay because it's on somebody else's land.
I didn't sign up.
I didn't sign up for that stupid pipeline across the road.
I didn't do any of that.
They all say it's safe, all say it's safe.
-Mum! -I have to sleep here 24-7.
I have to live here.
♪♪
Pratzky: I did a little bit of research,
and it doesn't take long to find out
that extracting coal seam gas is a risky business.
A hole is drilled into the coal seam.
A steel pipe is lowered down the hole and encased in cement.
They extract the water from the coal seam,
which then releases the gas.
The oil and gas industry's own statistics
reveal that at least 5% of wells fail instantly.
50% of wells fail within 30 years,
and eventually all gas wells will fail.
The companies then have the option
to frack the gas well.
Fracking releases more gas, which makes them more money.
Hydraulic fractioning is a process
where they combine water, sand,
and a mix of chemicals like bronopol,
MAGNACIDE 575, droxymethyl, triibutyl.
Jeez, can't even get it out.
Then they ram this toxic mix down the gas well
to fracture the coal seam to produce more gas.
The water could come out extremely toxic
combined with heavy metals, uranium,
and all sorts of nasties.
The biggest companies doing the fracking in Australia
are Halliburton and Schlumberger.
They're the main two.
Once they get the gas out of the ground,
it heads up to the central processing plant
where they flare off the gas they don't want.
That releases greenhouse gases and poly aromatic hydrocarbons
into the atmosphere,
so the government gives these companies access to your land.
They say the landholder only controls the top six inches.
For me, that's my fucking six inches,
and I'm gonna protect it with my life.
♪♪
Ryan, Logan, blood nose, Logan, headache, 15th,
Ryan, Logan, bleeding nose, Logan headache, Ryan, Logan,
blood nose, Logan, headache, 19th,
Logan, Ryan, bleeding nose, headache.
You know, every second day she's got a headache.
They're now coming up by Logan's --
First started with around her eye.
It's all red and just horrible.
She's 4.
It's ridiculous, and nobody wants to know,
but the government knows.
The companies know because I write to them all the time,
tell them all the kids.
I mean, they know every kid in this estate is sick.
We're collateral damage. Aren't we?Mm.
What kid is waking up in a pool of blood?
I can't do this.
♪♪
This is when I actually get angry.
I get angry when I come back,
even if when I see Deb like that because
the kids are getting sick, man, and that's pretty, you know.
♪♪
Man: Sit down as you listen to this.
437 million hectares of Australia is covered by coal
and coal seam gas licenses or applications,
18 times the size of Great Britain.
♪♪
Look, look at these quacks. Look at them all.
No, they just come into town and just take over, you know?
They take over your airports. They take over your pubs.
They take over the rental market.
They take over your town, mate.
♪♪
When we came here to forge a new way of life,
not only did they not respect that.
They have treated us with contempt.
With this great industry and the great boom
with the energy industry, etcetera, etcetera, our children
are not going to inherit anything other than the mess.
So it says here the real estate price in Chinchilla
have been on the rise,
but experts predict the best is still yet to come so...
The whole town, what have they drawn up?
Change of 20% last quarter.
This is the value of our property here.
That price is valued at $200,000.
Yeah, this is the newest one.
There it is. It's $165,000 so we're actually --
This property has been devalued by $35,000.
So...
They say it's gonna get better.
How can it get better than that for you, mate?
You've just lost, you know, 15,
20% of the equity in your home.
If we don't do something now, we're going to go down
as a generation that sat down and let it all go to shit.
♪♪
[Horn honks]
Fuck.
That's fucking wild, isn't it?
It's fucking mental.
♪♪
Did they knock your fence down there?
Yeah, and not like it was -- It was all standing.Yeah.
Right? It was all standing.
It was all stock-proof, and as they pushed through,
they've just snapped the old posts over,
but instead of trees --
I've had to move some of the trees,
but I've left that one just so you can see.
That's how they leave it. They don't give a shit.
Plus I think they're trying to invoke a response, you know?
So where is this pipeline one actually going?
It's the main one that goes through --
What's it come this way for?
Well, this is the main one,
and then they've got the other one that goes out to Kenya.
-Beautiful cow. -Holly is her name.
[Indistinct conversations]
-Wow. -Milk, milk.
What is it?
-Milk. -Milk?
You know, we used to have the --
The bull used to be on a 5,000 gallon.
Right now it's on a 1,000-liter, right?
We no longer use an outhouse, can't use it anymore.
The first thing that we noticed
was that the frogs were all dead in the tank.
-Ah, freaking hell! -Smell that?
Yeah, this used to be, like, pigs would drink this water.
Well, mate, you shouldn't smell that, young fella.
I'm not gonna.
Good, you shouldn't even breathe it.
There we go.
-Do you think that's normal? -No.
Well, I can't say I've done much testing,
but that's not right. -No.
They hit a soft target out here, they believe.
They didn't count on us, and that was their problem.
That's their oversight.
We're being sold out because so many people are happy for us
to get it so long as they don't,
and if we can't stop it here when it's only a baby industry,
we're never going to stop it anywhere,
and it is gonna destroy this nation.
♪♪
Well, I've worked this land ever since 19 --
Well, my father owned it down here since in 1920,
grandfather in 1925, so I know this land.
I know this land real well,
and I know what you can do if you stuff it up,
and once you stuff this land, it's stuffed.
I got sent this document, and it was all about
how many estimated cubic feet of gas
was under this and that and on the heap, you know?
And it did show that all of us, the estates and all of you guys
were all under, like, the mother lode.
We are on the mother lode.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, 10, 11, 12, 13 wells on your place.
So why would he tell me there was only gonna be four?
-Because they're assholes. -Because they're lying prigs.
Now he said to us the other day he's never lied to us.
Now I'm gonna -- I've been affected.
There's nobody out there to help us, nobody.Mm-hmm.
Every direction, 360-degree view,
there's nobody helping us.
♪♪
Pratzky: There's about 400 wells around my direct property,
and 7 1/2 kilometers up the road,
there's a central processing plant
and the reverse osmosis plant.
It's a microcosm of what's in store for Queensland.
There's about 4,500 wells at the moment,
and potentially we'll have 50,000 wells.
♪♪
You know, if I knew what was in store for this place,
I would never have come here, an industrialized disaster zone.
It's unlivable.
Your land is unsellable.
You know, I mean, it's un-Australian.
♪♪
The government and gas companies like QGC underestimated us.
We're not stupid, but they treated us stupid.
We knew we couldn't trust them anymore,
and it was in our hands to make a difference,
so I bought some cameras and a cheap gas detector
and off we went.
[High-pitched beeping]
That's the wrong way to shoot that.
Should we shoot it right this way?
So that's obviously not the last 30-year project.
That's constantly venting gas.
The volatile organic compounds that are coming off of these
processing plants, you know, are pretty horrendous.
So I just want to try and get some information
on who's doing the hydraulic fracturing.
Woman: Now it's gonna take me a couple of weeks to do that,
to try and pull everything together for you.
Pratzky: Okay.
[High-pitched whirring]
[Line ringing] -QGC, this is Katie speaking.
Good afternoon, Katie. This is Dayne again.
Can I speak to, I don't know, maybe Mitchell Innes?
Katie: Yeah, hang on one sec.
I'll pop the hearing. -Thank you.
[Line ringing]
Sorry, Mitchell Innes is not available.
♪♪
That's a Ergon lock, QGC's lock.
Yeah, you've been locked out of your own place.
Yeah, not the first time.
The master key is a set of bolt-cutters.
We think it's been leaking for years,
and we did tell QGC probably four of five years ago.
Nothing was ever done.
Pratzky: What we've got here is a well
that's leaking so much gas, it's bubbling.
Good on you. Good on you, buddy, QGC.
Male Automated Voice: Thank you for contacting QGC.
Our staff are currently attending to other calls.
We are aware of your call,
and we will be with you shortly.
[Beeping]
There's no one that's going to answer my calls.
♪♪
[Line ringing]
Once you get out of the anger, you realize you're lonely,
so I just had to reach out to somebody.
I was really just looking at who was interested
in what I was doing.
And that's when I came across Wendy.
She was from Pennsylvania
and was surrounded by gas wells, too.
[Line ringing]
-Hey, honey. -How are you doing?
Good, how are you doing?
How was work?
It was good.
-Yeah? -Yeah.
You look pretty.
Thanks, hon.
Pratzky: We sort of started, you know,
one conversation in the week,
and then it went to sort of two conversations a week,
and then three conversations a week,
and then one every day.
She became someone to bounce ideas off,
and then before you knew it,
it was like my multimedia girlfriend at that point.
So what do you think... [speaks indistinctly]?
I'm just getting a bit more worried than I was before.
It makes you sick for one minute then not the next,
then these kids have got nosebleeds and rashes
and all sorts of stuff, so it's just --
It's not right.
There's something not right going on here.
Well, the most difficult part
is that it's like you're being attacked,
but there's nobody to prove it.
There's no one to stop it.
And I think they know.
They know damn well what they're doing.
They know.
♪♪
We quickly realized that the government
weren't gonna help us.
The company wasn't gonna help us.
It was up to us.
They wanted in and we didn't want to let them in,
so we drew an invisible barrier,
and inside that barrier was a no-go zone for the industry.
♪♪
They thought they could just push through here
because the people are not wealthy, you know?
Some people aren't educated.
They didn't count on a bit of determination,
and they've underestimated us.
So thanks very much, everybody, for coming along today,
so we're gonna have a chat today about some concerns
that the local residents in particular
have raised about the proposed seismic program.
Just from the government's side, we've got folks from DERM --
-Mm-hmm. -...and the environmental space.
-Yeah. -...and safety guys here.
They'll have a listen to what you've got to say,
and then we can just go from there, right, huh?Yep.
You happy with that? You guys are happy with that?
All right.
Seismic itself is recognized as a low-impact activity.
If you had a multi-layered cake,
and you were to slice it in half and move the halves apart,
you would be able to see the layers.
Everybody is aware that this environmentally sensitive
and that the other previous pipelines have gone around.
Why can't you go around?
We would like to go on the seismic line,
the senses, by hand-carrying through the area, yes.
If you don't plan to drill here, what's the point of doing it?Yeah.
I suppose this is really where we're at.
We're trying to understand what's down there to see
whether it's even viable now.
Well, it's not viable because it's --
Environment is sensitive, so you're not coming through
with it, like, whether it's viable or not.
If this is the biggest bit of coal in Australia,
you're still not coming here.
This is the first nail in the coffin.
We allow you to put this through here.
It could be the beginning of the end of all of it,
and that is not acceptable.
In the end, it's still a gas field, and it's --
You know, it's still, like I said,
gonna change the structure of the land,
and the impact on the wildlife will be enormous.
From what I've explained to you today,
can you tell me how I'm gonna damage the environment?
Well, it may not be these guys
walking 600 meters through the bush.
-No, yeah. -But it's what follows.
We know what follows seismic.
This is a precursor to a major destruction of our area.
You know, we have an obligation to check, right?
Not to believe anybody else, so it's like,
"There you go. These are the things you can do in
A, B and C."You guys should not talk about checking and believing
because we check on you, and we don't believe you guys.
It's these guys here. -But we have --
And the guys that are supposed to do it, and you should be --
-We are -- -What's going on there?
This is the fox in charge of the chook pen, eh?
This is ridiculous. It's bordering on a joke.
This is the thin edge of the wedge.
If that thing goes through,
we've got no control over what happens after that.
That thing is not going to go through.
I promise you.
What's that blue thing in that fence?I don't know.
-Well, it's emitting gas. -Is it?
All the time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
By your meter?
It's an explosive.
I guess it is some kind of relief valve.
How is that?
If the gas wells don't have the leak,
and they're allowed to vent it at a level that's explosive...
Do you think that's a safety issue?
Of course it's a safety issue. Of course it's a safety issue.
Just gonna have a chat with you about.
♪♪
The strategy we put in place was maximum disruption
in a form of economic sabotage.
We wanted to cost them as much money as possible,
far more than it would to solve the problem,
and not only that was to talk, talk, talk, talk,
talk, talk, talk.
Let me introduce you to Dayne Pratzky.
Hey, Dayne. How are you doing?
Thanks for having me.
And we're talking pulsing gas.
This is the biggest environmental issue Australia
has ever faced.
We need a moratorium. We need to stir this up.
These companies need to be held accountable
for what they're actually doing.
I would drive four hours to speak to three people,
and if I could change those three people
and get them to go home and talk about it,
they could change three, and then we would grow,
and that's what we did.
Dayne, good morning to you.
And I think what people really need to understand
is that gas wells leak,
and the government know they leak.
This is, you know, the Australian public
has never been deceived in a way that we are right now.
We've got this methane venting into the air.
It's 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
It should be stopped in its tracks today
until we know the answer to the questions you're raising.
Unlivable and unsellable, do you want that?
This is a movement that is crossing boundaries.
We're gonna fight this, and we're gonna win
because we've got no choice.
[Cheering]
This coal seam gas industry is like an old car
screaming down the highway with bad brakes and no reverse.
Are you gonna stand up and be counted?
Or are you gonna be one of these people
who sit on the fence?
Stand up, lock the gate! We've had enough!
[Cheering]
Reporter: A Chinchilla farmer angry about the LNP's policy
confronted the state opposition leader
during a media conference.
Would you like a gas well right here?
Because that's where they're putting it,
70 meters from people's front doors.
It's a disgrace. -Dayne.
And if you condone it,
you are as big a disgrace as the bloody government.
We're not condoning it
and we've said you're our people.
We'll look after you.
Pratzky: Initially we thought we were alone.
As time went on, we realized there were many communities
throughout Australia who were going to be
facing exactly the same problems as we were.
[Horns honking]
Okay, so guys, our target is just up the road about seven Ks.
It's called Kenya.
It's the processing plant
for the Queensland Gas Company in this area.
Once again, respectful for the workers,
respectful to the security guards
and that sort of thing, so let's have a good day,
and let's get this happening, eh?
[Cheering]
Here we go.
Just right in front of the gate, Pierce.
[Man speaks indistinctly over radio]
We're gonna lock down now these other gates.Yeah.
Jump in your vehicle, fill your vehicle.Yeah.
After it's gate two. We'll go to the end gate.Okay.
We've effectively blocked the road for this truck
trying to get through, so now it's stuck.
This is the unintended consequence of a blockade,
and now we've got a full road block.
By the end of the day, and like I've always said,
the last resort for us is to take action
and arrest people, okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Straight up.
Obviously, you've got a strong influence
on the people here,
so it seems well, while I'm talking to you.
I think you guys overestimate me.No.
This is a written warning to say
that if you're obstructing our work, our progress,
so therefore the consequences of that
can be up to a $50,000 fine for unlawful contact, okay?
♪♪
Okay?
Pratzky: We tried to get the ear of industry.
They just didn't want to listen,
so I have to try and make them listen.
[Chanting] No coal seam gas!
No coal seam gas!
-So very crucial. -Excuse me.
I'm going to respectfully interrupt your conference.
My name is Dayne Pratzky.
I'm an effected landholder from what you people are doing.
Please respect us.
[Indistinct conversations]
What we ask is a fair go, a fair go.
We just want a fair go.
-[Speaks indistinctly] -Whoa. Whoa.
If you give us a fair go, we wouldn't even be here.
You people should be ashamed of yourselves.
[Chanting] No! No coal seam gas!
No coal seam gas!
Pratzky: How many people do we have out there?
Woman: About 300.
-So they're the lifts, correct? -Yeah, lifts.
So they come out of here.
Over here is elevators.
There's one up. There's one down.
He's gonna run out, be the decoy.
We're all gonna try and get up the stairs
to lock the doors down.
Good morning. -No coal seam gas!
No coal seam gas!
[Cheering]
The battle over coal seam gas in Queensland
has reached a new flash point.
At a fiery protest in Brisbane, tempers flared,
and one man was arrested
after trying to lock the front doors of the Sofitel
where an industry summit was being held.
[Chanting] No coal seam gas!
Lock the gate!
♪♪
I'm actually quite embarrassed even thinking
about what I'm thinking about what I'm about to do,
but the time is right to do something like this.
♪♪
I'm prepared to do whatever I have to do,
and if that meant putting on a stupid fucking white suit
with a stupid gas mask,
that was it.
♪♪
No coal seam gas!
No fracking way.
I'm not afraid of a multibillion-dollar company
who could squash me financially in a second.
I'm not afraid of them, and they know I'm not afraid of them,
so it's put me in an awfully strong position
and them in an awfully weak position.
A big company marches onto your land,
sinks a well without your permission,
then proceeds to threaten your livelihood,
and it's our laws and our politicians
who are letting it happen.
Local Dayne Pratzky says, "Since mining began nearby,
the bore is spewing more gas than water."
Are you ready for this?
And just to prove it, when you light it, it does this.
♪♪
Do you know what chemicals are used?
Not totally, no.
Shouldn't you?
Um...
Shouldn't you know what chemicals
they hydraulically ram down those wells?
Well, what I'm assured about is that the processes
that they employee are appropriate processes
for the extraction of that coal seam gas.
♪♪
[Laughs]
Finally, eh? Finally!
We had a party at my house.
We're drinking around the fire, and we're going,
"That's it. It's all over."
And the coal seam gas industry was now dead and finished,
and they will pack up, fill all the holes in.
We'll fuck off.
That's how naive and stupid we were.
♪♪
Anchorwoman: Residents in Sydney South
fear their water supply
will be threatened if plans to drill
for coal seam gas go ahead.
Apex Energy has approval to drill 15 wells near Helensburgh.
Anchorman: The government is so keen to bring forward
the windfall, it's fast-tracking drilling applications.
♪♪
Now this coal-seam-gas industry is all over Australia.
We're rotten with the stuff. It's infiltrating.
It's dominating, and it's threatening public health,
water quality, water volumes,
prime agriculture land and food security.
♪♪
We weren't winning this thing. We needed help.
♪♪
Come sit down. How's it going?
Oh, you know, so-so.
You know the way it is out there.Dreadful.
Just describe that environment.
It is truck after truck after truck after truck.
-Chinchilla town. -The whole area.
Oh, the place has just been overrun, overtaken.
It's acknowledged that 22 billion liters,
that is 22 thousand million liters of water,
would be required every year.
We are on the driest continent in the world.Unbelievable.
And a by-product of an industry is water?
Mm-hmm.
You don't have to be that smart
to work out that that's a problem.
They don't have to pay for it like the farmers pay for it.
-Nothing. -Not a cent.
The waste would be 110,000 tons of salt and brine.
But Macfarlane, who is the federal member of this says,
"Come on, boys. Get it out of the ground."
You know why I'm not worried about toxifying the aquifer?
Because there's gonna be no water left.
No water left to toxify, quite.
They're hanging us out to dry, and we're going to fight,
and we're going to fight for our lives
'cause this is where we're at.
Coal Seam Gas Santos is up the road here.
What are you gonna do about it? Hey. Hey.
Are you gonna lock yourself to a bloody track?
Lock anywhere, mate. I don't care.
I'll lie down in the middle of the road. I don't care.
They're not going to push over us or walk over us.
Lock the gate and get your neighbors to lock the gate.
Then lock your road.
Lock your community, and hopefully we'll lock
the whole country down from these people.
These people don't care.
This is the biggest con that has been perpetrated
on the Australian people since the asbestos disaster.
So right now, mate, the battle is on.
The battle is on for our rights and for our country.
You're a gutsy bloke.
We ain't started yet. We ain't started yet.
♪♪
As far as the industry is concerned,
it's chemicals under your kitchen sink,
but we all know that's not true.
They know it's not true, and no one has proved that it's not.
So I'm out to prove that's, you know, that that's not true,
but they just keep on -- They're on this spin.
So the only way to do it is to get the evidence.
♪♪
Right. Now there's our man.
Let's get around and follow him.
They're really important, these trucks.
These are the ones that hold the frack loads,
so, you know, where these trucks go,
you're going to get hydraulic fracturing,
and then potentially we can get a sample.
We've tracked Halliburton for half a day.
We've filmed where they've gone in,
and now it's time to go and have a look
and see if we can get our samples.
♪♪
It's out there on top of the hill.
It's five Ks.
So I think we're just walking.
♪♪
I'm thinking when three more guys come out of there,
we should go in if these guys don't go back.
♪♪
There's one here.
There's a hopper here.
What's obviously happening, you see a truck will back up here
onto these ramps,
and they'll empty that content in there.
Now that'll mix up. Right?
Churn it up into this, which would be a mixing bowl.
This is where all the bad stuff is.
Eye wash and a shower.
We need to probably take note of that ourselves being on here.
♪♪
Oi, is that a car?
They've stopped.
Let's go. Grab it. Let's go.
Quick. Quick.
♪♪
[Speaks indistinctly]
We have to wait until it gets dark.
♪♪
We'll just take a sample of this.
The way we judge which we're trying to get
was very difficult.
Was one of the things -- touch and smell.
Like, you know, you're fucking dumb and dumber.
That wasn't a good idea.
We knew at that point that some of the chemicals
they were using were so deadly,
and here we are taking minimal precautions.
[Gasps] No.
Disaster.
Better get it before it sinks, man.
Right. But now it's on me.
I've got fluid on me. Let's clean this up.
I'm getting in that shower.
So this is going to be a really nice walk back
to the flaming car.
I'm wet. Let's get out of here.
♪♪
Slide over that. See if it's all right.
Can I leave these on your veranda?
I just need to work out what to actually do with them.
Ouch. Fingers are burning.
♪♪
Would you cut the bread?
-Wendy, this knife sucks. -Yeah.
People always ask Dayne to say that.
That's, like, one of the things they ask for, and he always go,
"That's not a knife. This is a knife."
Does he say crikeys?
Yeah. Yeah.
He'll say that he doesn't, but in an unguarded moment,
he definitely says crikeys.
-He does? -Yeah.
Do they really say that?
-Yes, they do. -What else do they say?
He definitely says, "And it went pear-shaped,"
which I didn't know what that meant at all.
That means things went out of control.
It went pear-shaped.
I want to meet his family and see where he lives,
meet his dogs and spend some time in his world.
♪♪
It potentially affects us with our future finances
because now I've got a deadweight.
We're both approaching 40, and we don't --
-Speak for yourself. -All right.
You've just approached mid-30s,
and I'm approaching 40, and we don't --
You know, it's like I'm back to square one.
It should be one of the most happiest times in my life.
I'm about to pay my mortgage off and own my property
when in actual fact it's becoming
one of the saddest times of my life
because I can't -- It's a waste.
It's just a waste because it's gonna get to the point
where I can't live here,
and I definitely wouldn't bring you here.
♪♪
It's not fair on you.
♪♪
Everyone is feeling pretty guilty about wanting to get out,
but we don't actually think it's gonna happen.
We all think we're just gonna have to walk,
and that's our biggest fear is walking
because then we leave with nothing.
No one has got anything.
♪♪
I've got bricks here to build a house up.
I don't really want to do it. I really want to do it.
I'm not going to do it.
While I've got a gas field coming through,
I'm not going to spend the money.
I'm going to spend the money on a removals truck
instead and just move out.
That's why it's hitting for me.
I don't know. Not a good feeling.
♪♪
We know where this is heading. This industry can't be trusted.
Anchorwoman: A controversial project
in the Pilliga Forest has been granted special status
by the state government.
The move has outraged farmers
and environmentalists in the state's northwest.
Pickard: This forest is an area of state
and federal significance,
and yet they're prepared to pull the bloody thing apart
and to screw it.
When I first saw it, there was a thick black tarry coating.
Like this stuff here.
-This is tar. Look at it. -Yeah.
Look at this. Look at --
We're one dam at burst and spread coal-seam-gas fluid,
plus drilling fluids, all through the forest.
They said, "Soil samples have been taken.
We're waiting for the results."
That's right. That's right.
But I kept ringing them, and they kept saying,
"We haven't got the results." -Yeah.
They're just lying. They lie through their teeth.
Now we came out here, finally did our own samples,
and within 10 days, we had the results back.
The water sample showed massively elevated levels
of heavy metals,
arsenic at about 21 times the natural levels,
lead at 25 times and chromium at 37 times
and similar results for all the other heavy metals
so really toxic mix basically of salts,
heavy metals, and petrochemicals.
That's how hopeless this method of self-regulation is.
It's like somebody sprayed Agent Orange on the top
except it's on the ground.
Santos said, "It's just eucalyptus
leaves turning the water black."
Does that look like eucalyptus leaves to you?
The only incidents that have been out in the media
and that have been reported on are the things that
you guys have gone on the ground and investigated yourself.
That's correct. Yeah.
So the burden of proof is on you.
♪♪
Why we even have to do this is ridiculous really.
Because they can't be trusted,
and the government aren't backing it.
I run four politicians in the last fortnight,
and they just kept passing me on.Right-o.
So we've got the voice recorder, your microphone on?
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Righty-o.
The egg can. All right. Yep. Yep.
You think we'll get them there?
Oh, you'll never be -- I'll never say that.
-I'll meet them out here. -We're all ready to go.
They're here. Oh, shit. Fit in there now.
Right. Have a good one. There you go.
[Indistinct conversations]
Right-o. Now I want you to write.
You're going to be the secretary today.
-Yep. -I've got a few things.
With every time you come here, George,
we start at home base as you call it. Right?
How many holes did you tell me that are being drilled?One.
That is a 2002 Internet photo.
I've got a map here that I gave you,
and thank Christ I kept it.
Why didn't you follow up what I said you could do?
Well, at the time, they're only looking to put in the one,
and I would've made note and reported to them
that's the only place you wanted you them,
but they obviously -- They want to put more in.
Of course they want to put more in,
and they're treating us like fucking dirt.
Aren't they?
Now by rights, you should've supplied that map to me.
That is your proposal.
Well, the business wouldn't supply me
with any conceptual map at the particular time.
What the fucking else good are you fellas coming here
if your business people won't let you tell us what's going on?
-That's a good question. -Course it is.
They think we're a bunch of fucking idiots.
We've been looking after this land for 100 fucking years.
You fellas are going to come in here.
You're going to fuck this country.
You're going to kill every bastard around here,
and you're just going to walk away with your million dollars.
And what are we going to get out of it?
This is my fucking land, not yours.
You can come and do your drilling,
but you'll do exactly what I tell you do.
Otherwise, there will be shit.
So I want you to write that down there.Yep.
There will never be a fracking pond on this place,
and I want you fellas to sign that.
If you won't look after us,
then we got to fight like fucking shit.
Then I tell you what, I'm a fighting man.
Same as usual, just pushed me aside.
Didn't they?
They're going to keep going until --
My opinion, they're going to keep nagging me until I give in,
and I'm not giving in.
They've struck a bloody brick wall here.
That's my opinion.
Hey, it's your home, mate.
Yeah. That's right.
That's -- You can't buy a home.
I mean, you build one.
♪♪
Oh, mate. It's a domestic boy.
You -- You know, we use it as we need it.
-Is this the area here? -Right here.
Can you put that over the end of that one?I certainly can.
Just keep it up so we don't get no oil contaminated.
You getting anything, Peter?
No. It's not even a flicker,
but I'm on the percentage range, you know so...
You guys let us know it's safe. That's all we want to hear.
As far as the gas' point of view of it,
it's not affecting -- More to the point, let's be --
You won't be gassed to your property.
Put it that way.
So then it wouldn't be flammable then?No, not a chance in the world.
-Thanks for your time. -Yeah.
-Thank you. -Not a chance in the world.
That's all we needed to hear. That's all we needed to hear.
Thank you very much.
It's 11:45, Wednesday the 24th of August.
We've just heard that the water bore is not flammable.
Now I'm going to go out there.
Dave is taking them back to the gate.
Ryan and I are going to walk straight up and light the bore.
Not my definition of flammable, is it?
Yeah, not flammable at all. Can't light that.
So who's lying?
So is their equipment faulty?
Look pretty flash there here.
-Look pretty flash. -Look at that.
That's lighting quite well.
His...
The government officials paid to test it, said it's not there.
I can actually...
I can actually feel the adrenaline
is actually flowing out of my body.
I'm that angry and that disappointed.
They really...
When is gas when it's not gas?
When a government gas inspector comes around.
So that means that every single gas result that these people
have published to say that this industry is safe --
-Look at that. -...is worth nothing, so,
people of Australia, wake up.
♪♪
I'm going to try this out and see what happens.
Oh!
[Laughing]
There's a head on the nose.
[Laughing]
I shouldn't be laughing.
It held a flame.
That actually held the flame.
We're very confident that this is just
a naturally occurring phenomenon.
The state government's own
enforcement unit has investigated and agrees
the bubbles are naturally occurring,
but its decision is based solely on information
provided by Origin.
[Indistinct conversations]
Look, look.
You got to be fucking kidding.
Mate, I'll absolutely fucking guarantee you
that that's not normal.
You guys have put me in a hell of a spot here, you know?
I'm a -- I do --
I am a contractor for the gas companies.
-Yeah. -And I know that the minute
I speak out against these guys, it'll all end.
How far are you from your place, you reckon, from here?
Well, the house is about a K and a half --
-So you know this -- -...due north.
...like the back of your hand.
Grew up here, lived here, but that's fucking wrong.
Jeez, this is a happy place, mate.
This has got really good memories of pretty girls
in bikinis swimming and playing on tractors, mate.
-Yeah, sure. -This is...
I wouldn't let me fucking dog swim in that.
♪♪
-And how old are you, Linda? -95.
-Do you want to unlock yourself? -No.
You're pretty determined to stay?
Yeah, I'm staying.
My granddaughter is tied up over there.
-Are you going to lose nerve? -No, sir.
[Tool whirring]
♪♪
[Horn honks]
All: Hey!
Pratzky: In the early days,
I met a gentleman by the name of Drew Hutton.
He was a charismatic chap, and from there,
I quickly learned that he was one of the key figures
that we needed to connect with.
The best way to fight if you want to keep them out
is to do it before they even get in.
And all we're doing is employing, you know,
sort of Gandhian tactics,
you know, withdrawal corporation from the British Colonials.
From this gate, we're withdrawing corporation
from this industry
that wants to trash the countryside.
You've got the power, and you mustn't forget that.
You know, they don't think you're the victims in this.
They're the people who've got billions of dollars on --
at stake, and they're desperate,
and if they can't get on the oil properties,
then you've got them completely over a barrel.
[Applause]
Our fathers, they went to war to fight for the right
to own this country, not someone else.
Now, now what we won at war we can't win at home!
The enemy is within!
When governments fail us as they have on this issue,
ordinary people have got to step up and become heroes.
[Applause, horn honking]
As a fourth-generation dairy farmer just over the hill there,
we are very concerned
because our whole enterprise depends on groundwater.
Now they stuff it up, which they surely will do,
that's the end of us, and it'll be the end
of all the other farmers in this valley.
-Hold the gate shut. -Unlock the gate.
Unlock the gate.
♪♪
The goal of a civil resister is to continually provoke.
-We need to ramp it up today. -Okay.
♪♪
I didn't know about Gandhian tactics.
I'm not one that has stood front of a nuclear power station
singing "Kumbaya" and "Give Peace a Chance."
I'm more, like, give peace a chance.
I'll give you a piece of my fucking mind,
and I'll land one on your chin.
♪♪
Piss off!
This is my land, and I'm... [speaks indistinctly]
-You go! -Hey! Watch it!
Don't you fucking touch me.
Go up there and talk to fucking QGC!Fuck QGC!
♪♪
[Booing, shouting indistinctly]
If you disobey any directions,
you will be arrested and removed with as much force as necessary.
♪♪
[Chanting] Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame,
shame, shame, shame, shame.
Pratzky: The anger is growing.
We've gone from wanting to be a peaceful,
civil, disobedient group
to crack some fucking heads.
No matter what, you can't have anybody cracking heads.
You'll be as bad as the industry.
The mood is changing.
It's getting to a worrying place for me.
I see the attitudes changing, and I'm worried.
As much as everybody may feel that way,
it's not the right decision,
and it will not leave you with a legacy
that other people can move from,
so it's not the right way to go.
Fracking chemicals are not household chemicals.
They are not the chemical you will find under your sink.
They are not the chemicals you will find
in your bathroom cabinet.
A large number of them are very serious toxic chemicals.
I know a lot of that's going to public landfill,
and it'll be you and I that pay for it.
[Applause]
How long have I got after I take the sample?
Depends on what you're testing for,
but the shortest time frame
is for the volatile and semivolatile chemicals
because, as you can imagine, they gas off,
so those ones have to be --
So let me get this right. They evaporate?
They can evaporate. Yes. They're volatile.
Even out of a closed coffee jar?
In the -- Shouldn't be a closed coffee jar.
It should actually be proper sterile sampling containers.
If you're going to take those results to a government agency
or to an industry or even use them for media,
every little mistake or every holdup you've done
in that sample will count against you.
And it needs to have --
needs to be 100% irrefutable.
It's taken correctly.
It's been stored correctly. -That's right.
And now we're going to take it to you.
That's right. We're going to test it.Okay.
I'm going to take these.
They're cannister sampling devices
so, you know, hoping it will go all right,
so I'll read these instructions
again for the fifth time.
When we get there, all I've got to do is remove
that and open the valve, and we're away.
There's our camouflage.
This is the first air sampling we've done,
so I'm really hopeful that we actually get something
that's worthy, that's going to make a difference, you know?
♪♪
-Got a taste yet? -Yeah, got it.
♪♪
I'm pretty sure there's going to be some pretty bad
air emissions, and look, we're just at the start,
so when this thing gets really ramped up
and all the wells are drilled and it's fully operational,
this place will just be a toxic nightmare.
♪♪
A $12 1/2 billion liquefied natural gas project
has been approved for Curtis Island off Gladstone.
Anchorwoman: Construction will take four years
and create 6,000 jobs.
The first LNG exports to China are expected to begin mid-2015.
♪♪
Pratzky: The pipeline runs from my area.
It literally starts in starts in Kumbarilla,
which is about 20 minutes and runs for 540 kilometers,
through farmland all the way to the Port of Gladstone.
This is where they'll ship every little bit of gas overseas.
None of this gas is going to end up in our barbecues.
You're at the port. I'm at the pipe.Yep.
It's just devastated our whole community.Yep.
Do you feel it's similar around here?
A lot of the locals are frustrated, the long-term ones.
A lot have left town. They just simply walked away.
LNG workers basically dominate the town, you know?
And it's caused devastation in a lot of families
and not just in the fishing industry.
So they somehow managed to get a license
to dump five million cubic meters of dredge spoil
out in front here, out in the ocean,
about 400 meters from
the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
It looks like somebody dropped a bit of acid on it.
Yeah, that's another area, the same kind of shell disease,
severe ulceration eating into the flesh of the claw.
These are the types of defects we see
with too much exposure to metals in the water.
The crab fishermen can't sell them.
They don't survive transport. They'll die anyway.
Well, you wouldn't want to eat that.
You wouldn't want to eat it.
We've lost 50% of the dolphins out of the harbor.
50% are dead, gone.
♪♪
These are long-term effects,
and I think we're going for short-term gain, long-term loss.
♪♪
All that toxic stuff that they're dumping out there
is all washing back in,
and the fish are paying the price, you know?
And they say sharks never get diseased.
There you are. It's got into everything.
It's disgusting. Man has done this, nobody else.
Man has done this
all for the sake of the almighty dollar.
That's it, absolutely a shame.
♪♪
10 being the highest, one being the lowest,
LNG for Gladstone, you know, how good is it being for Gladstone?
-Nine. -Nine?
That good? -That good.
Amazing.
♪♪
If a child at high school wants to have a traineeship,
if they want to have an apprenticeship,
if they want a job,
they're guaranteed of a job in this region.
Now where else can you go and say that?
Gladstone has a buzz. You know, it's just busy.
It's just happening.
You know, we're tourism as well.
We're industrial tourism. You know, it's --
-I've never heard that before. -I knew you'd like that.
[Laughter]
♪♪
So I believe as a risk,
it's worth it.
♪♪
I've finally got these air sample results back.
I've got no idea what they mean.
Oh, what you have found so far,
what are called chlorofluorocarbons,
they're ozone depleters.
The global community has decided that they are too dangerous,
and they should be, you know, eradicated,
so it is very worrying to see them
turning up in the gas activities and the gas fields,
particularly with these because, again, a number of these
are carcinogens, cancer-causing chemicals,
should have, you know, get the Queensland government
or the federal government to move in
and to do some proper investigation.
The worry is that you really won't see the full impact
until years down the track.
So basically, I'm at a crossroads where I'm stuck.
I've got to wait until one of the kids up the road dies
or, you know, some serious illnesses break out
before anyone is going to do anything.
You know, you're a big man.
You've got a much better way
of managing the assault on your systems than the kids do,
and really, I am so sorry to have to say that
because I feel shocking about it,
but that is the reality when it comes to toxics.
It's not -- It's not...
It's a terrible thing to have to say when you're dealing with,
what, 15 to 20 children under the age of 5.
That's not very fair.
No, it's definitely not fair.
Pratzky: You know what?
It does make one thing clear that we've got to go harder.
We've got to find the proof,
and if the bastards won't fix it, we'll fucking fix it.
♪♪
You know, man, this is one of the only chances that, you know,
we get to actually come and see what's in the yard,
and really, what I want to find out from you
is more about the chemical storage,
where they're storing on-site and if I'm out on the road,
you know, looking and we see one of these vehicles,
which one can we see that must be on-site?
Right, usually, you look for the blenders.
The blenders.
Because you've only got two on the location,
and you need them there to do anything.
What do they do with frack waste?
I don't know.
What you need is samples of water
that you believe aren't good and find what's in them.
♪♪
We're about to jump the Halliburton yard
to install the tracker.
So what have we got here?
Mate, to be honest with you,
when we were doing this shit before,
I was fucking scared and worried of getting caught,
but I'm at the point, mate,
where I just don't give a fuck anymore.
I just don't care.
I want the fucking truth,
and I don't care what I've got to do to get it.
I've just had enough, mate.
♪♪
Right, let's roll. Get out of here.
♪♪
-Guess what, Toddy? -What's that?
Our tracker is in Spring Gully. Here we go.
Here is a turnoff that's in Spring Gully.
[Laughs]
♪♪
-New shirts, mate. -Nice.
[Speaks indistinctly]
♪♪
Spring Gully is a maze of wells, and because the guy said
they would like everyone to be out of here by 5:30,
we are going to be so limited on our sample-taking time
and our time on-site.
We've got to get the tracker back,
and we've got to get as many samples
as possible out of all those ponds and potentially the port.
Then we've got to get in the vehicle
and get out of there.
If we get pulled up at the last bit, mate, busted,
and then if we get busted once,
potentially going back is nonexistent
because they'll beef up security.
-There's the control room. -Mm-hmm.
Tracker on board, little do they know.
♪♪
This place is -- See? Look. See?
"Turn off all transmitting devices."
You know what I mean?
♪♪
Holy hell, smell that,
right, yeah.
What I do see is a pipe coming in, and you can see here,
quite clearly, fluid has been falling in,
so this here to me could be the bomb, the gold mine.
♪♪
I'll get the tracker.
Got it, easy.
I wish it was that easy to put on.
[Giggles]
But as the NRA says,
you'll have to pry those samples out of my cold, dead hands.
Nice, off to the lab, we're ready to go.
Done, thank God.
♪♪
When I got the invite to speak at the DC rally,
I couldn't believe it.
I thought, wow, more time to spend with Wendy,
and I get to spread the message.
You don't know when a girlfriend pops in your life.
You don't know when someone you care about is going to turn up.
It just happens.
If you look for it, you don't find it.
If you don't look for it, you also don't find it,
so you've got to be open to it.
♪♪
♪ Dreams, I've gotten in trouble ♪
♪ Dreams, I've made my mistake ♪
♪ And dreams I let my double ♪
♪ Do the things I want went away ♪
They've been drilling and fracking in Pennsylvania
for nearly 20 years.
Wendy is surrounded by the stuff.
Look.
There's a filling station
or an injection well, one of the two.
Look at these trucks. Look at them all.
That could have waste water in it,
so that could be full of old frack fluids.
Smell it.
There's houses hundreds of meters away from a frack site,
and these people have no say in what's happening to their lives.
With the mentality of local people
kind of being the coal miner mentality from the 1800s,
the recession hitting,
it's made it really difficult to fight off fracking.
If we changed all of our energies to renewable energy,
there'd be 20 times more jobs than this.
It's what you and Dayne have worked up to.Mm-hmm.
This is the point now where you guys get to figure out
what your life is going to be, and without doing that,
then what, you just continue on this?
This isn't what you want. -Right.
So you need to finalize this.
You need to figure out what's going on.
That's true.
We definitely can't continue like this.
No, and that's what I think you're working towards
is what you both really want.
You're always going to have family here.
We're a strong family even though we're small,
and you've become part of that.
I feel bad taking your daughter away,
and that's what it feels like. -But you're not taking her away.
We're gaining more family.
She's always going to be my daughter
whether she's with you or anybody else.
She won't be with anyone else. I'll say that.
[Laughter]
♪♪
Our next speaker is known euphemistically as Frackman,
Mr. Dayne Pratzky from Australia, Dayne.
Thank you very much for having me.
I'm from Queensland, Australia, and unfortunately,
your dirty technology that was developed in America
has now ended up in our backyard.
It's ended up in South Africa's backyard in New Zealand
all around the world.
We are fighting things on a different level in Australia.
We're climbing drill rigs.
We are blockading roads, and we are taking the power back.
[Cheering]
So you people out there have a big job on your hands
and a very important job, so stand up,
and stop the frack attack!
[Cheering]
We're under attack. What do we do?
Stand up! Fight back!
We're under attack!
♪♪
How did it end up going with those fracking samples?
Not well, not well at all.
It seems quite strange that so little
was picked up in those samples
that I really wonder if there was a problem with the sampling
or with the storage or maybe a delay in testing.
What do you mean there was --
You're saying there's nothing in there?
Pretty much so, and to be honest,
I don't know if using those samples at all is much use.
-All right, Marian. -Thanks, Marian.
-We'll talk to you later. -We'll talk to you later on.
-See you, Dan. Bye, Richard. -Bye.
I'm fucking fuming. I am fucking fuming.
Like, years and years and years
and years of sleeping on the side
of the fucking road in a swag,
eating chicken fucking sandwiches.
I don't know.
[Line ringing]
Good morning, SGS, this is Jen.
Good morning, Jen. My name is Dayne.
I just wanted to see if I could talk to somebody
about a report that I had done with you guys.
Yes, sir, what was your question?
I just want to --
If you can explain something to me,
there's some red lettering here.
Like, it's a got a date, and it says extracted,
and it's in red with, like, a dagger.
The reason why it would be red
is because you sampled it on the 18th of October,
but then we didn't receive the sample
until the 1st of November.
Okay, so right there, I'll just pull you up right there.
That's where I've got the problem.
We filled out an SGS credit card payment
form on the 21st of the 10th
when the samples were dropped off.
That's, like, two weeks later, whoa.
I'm going to have to do an investigation into this,
and I'm going to have to dig back through
and see what exactly happened.
But where does that leave me if I'm going into a court of law
to take on a company
or, say, the government over these samples,
and because of your end of the business,
I'm now sort of in a compromised position?
♪♪
After, you know, so much hope that it would be successful,
having it fail was -- I never prepared myself.
I put so much effort into it, it just --
so much effort for nothing.
I just -- I'm done with it.
It's over.
[Thunder crashes]
It's four -- For me, it's four years.
It's four years out of my life.
I don't want to wake up angry anymore.
♪♪
I don't want to wake up stressed anymore,
but I don't want to wake up with that noise, you know?
I just want to get my life back.
I want to try and get my life back,
but I don't want to leave everybody.
♪♪
There's no future for me
and Wendy in Tara or for anyone else.
♪♪
I had plans.
I had dreams to just better myself generally in society,
and, you know,
that's really one of the really difficult things to deal with,
to think that, you know, my dreams don't matter.
I mean, what I want actually doesn't matter.
It's what the state and federal governments
and these companies want to do.
That's what matters.
I know for a fact that both the government
and the gas corporation hate you,
so that indicates to me. -You know what?
That puts a smile on my face, Bob.
Well, if they didn't care whether you were around or not,
then you're failing, but if they're putting pressure on you,
and they are, that means that you are succeeding,
and I believe, I honestly believe
that although it's going to take a long time,
and there's going to be a lot of frustration
and anger and misery attached to it,
I think if enough people stand up to be counted,
we can actually stop it.
♪♪
Pratzky: Eventually, I knew we'd have to leave,
but there was one last fight left in us.
Now it was time to call everyone together
and make one last stand.
We're going to make these bastards listen no matter what.
The plan tomorrow is to bring the cops out of the woodwork.
We've got the bridge here that we always get right here.
We don't need more than two or three people
to stop them at that bridge and spread up,
so the police have to move that vehicle,
and then there's another blockade 200 meters up the road.
If you guys are all in front, we'll stop here.
You guys are all on this side of the bridge.
Then you spread out here and start blocking roads.
♪♪
Back again, boys.
♪♪
So nobody is going to be allowed through?
No one is allowed through.
Have you rang the police yet?
No, would you like me to?
-Probably best. -Okay.
Hey, now, fellas, guys, how is it running?
-Not too bad, thank you. -That's good.
You going to hop out the way for me?
-Yeah. -Yeah, you will?
Right on, mate. -Hey, go, go, go.
Get in the car. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Hey, we're ready to go.
Go, Toddy, or you're fucking sacked as the driver, mate.
I'm serious.
-Relax. -All right. Stop. Drop me here.
You can't skip out of a blockade, mate,
and go around the back.
You're in with them.
The cops arrived. Oi, hurry up! Hurry up!
Right, get off the road.
Everyone get off the road. All right.
Good morning, Jed. -How are you going, Dayne?
Not too bad, thank you.
Well, it's hard not to know the local police
when we have so much to do with them.
-See you later, Dayne. -See you soon.
Woman: Have a good day.
Pratzky: All these people, all this machinery,
now in 20 minutes, maybe 400 of them this morning.
Here go the cops. Hurry up. Hurry up, guys.
I'll get the mask on, and the suit is in the back.
Grab the mask.
♪♪
♪ Don't call me hippy 'cause the way that I look ♪
♪ Cause I got a recipe ♪
♪ Yeah, you know I can cook ♪
♪ And I come forth with only good intent ♪
♪ You know I am Heaven-bound, but I'm surely hell-bent ♪
♪ On getting the job done like I know I should ♪
♪ Get the job done like my mama told me to ♪
Pratzky: Let's go! Let's go! Bloody hell, let's go!
Let's go!
♪ And I don't care what race or what color or what creed ♪
♪ I said all that shit don't bother me ♪
♪ Only one thing that you should not forget ♪
♪ You gotta treat you mama with respect ♪
♪ And I don't care what fashion the styling of your hair ♪
♪ I don't care about the car or the clothes you do wear ♪
He's just a total accidental activist.
It's been tough for them, really hard.
People like Dayne and Debbie and Michael
and Scott and Narelle,
you know, they're just absolute heroes in my book.
Hands off Tara.
-Hands off Tara. -Hands off Tara.
♪♪
♪ Battle lines keep forming ♪
♪ Come now, it's time to lead ♪
Pratzky: And this is the last stand.
If we don't stand up against coal seam gas,
don't worry about standing up against
anything else because it's over.
This country will not be worth living in,
so please enjoy your day.
Thanks for coming.
Hands off Tara.
[Applause]
It's one of the most satisfying things
when you look back and people care.
I was really happy, but we have to face facts.
We couldn't save our land.
♪♪
Hey, Dayne, how are you?
Yeah, good, Drew, how about yourself?
I just want to get your thoughts on us being moved.
Like, is that...
You know, like, it worries me that would damage the movement,
to be honest with you, Drew.
Well, I don't think it's going to damage the movement.
You know, you might get a bit of criticism.
I don't know but, you know, some of the tourists
around the place who don't have to deal
with the terrible situation that you guys are facing.
You know, I just don't want to look like a sellout, you know?
If they didn't have Kenya there, well,
I'll tell you right now, I wouldn't be selling out.
I'd be fighting.
Yeah, I'll support you whatever you decide, you know?
You guys, you know,
you're not looking at a great future.
You're looking at being surrounded by this bloody stuff
and having to live with it the rest of your life,
so if they are seriously
talking about buying people out,
I mean, that's good.
Pratzky: You know, I didn't sleep at all last night.
I haven't seen her in a year.
♪♪
Wendy.
♪♪
Hi, honey.
♪♪
-You're real. -Here you go, babe.
Thank you, honey. I love you.
It's good to see you.
-You're here. -I'm here.
Finally, you're here.
♪♪
It's hard to believe that when I'm talking to you,
this is where you are. [Laughs]
How is it that we met again?
Wild, isn't it?
Here is my house.
I can't believe I'm looking at your gate.
Woman: ♪ I'm going to dress up tonight ♪
♪ And I'll look real pretty ♪
[Gasps] I see it.
Look at your house.
My little house.
This is where you talk to me from.
I've watched you work on this and build this.
♪ I'll leave you to revel in your youthful yearnings ♪
Is that where the yabbies are?
-That's where the yabbies are. -I want to see those.
♪ I steal the words ♪
Oh, my gosh, this is surreal for me.
Finally here.
It is really weird to be standing here
and seeing this in person.
There's a little baby kangaroo down here.
I see them.
It's part of... [speaks indistinctly]
Yeah, like I said, it has some strange beauty.
Although it's horrible now,
it had some beauty to it before.
It's not strange beauty. It is beauty.
And this is the bathroom that I never finished.
All this work, and I'm just going to walk away from it.
We've lost.
We won, and we lost
but no more for me here.
It's time to leave.
It's upsetting to think that he'd have to give this up.
Don't worry about it. It's all right.
We'll get through it. We'll get through it.
It'll be okay.
It's all right.
♪♪
If there's not a problem, they wouldn't move us, so we've won.
We have proved that people should not live in this area.
We're moving out of the estates.Yeah.
What will happen to the estates is the next question.Hmm.
♪♪
Mate, I just want you to be cautious.
-I know -- -I told them.
I don't want to live in a gas field, full stop.
You have to relocate.
Just be careful, if they do get you caught,
you may end up with that no good
enough deal to get out, and then you're going to have --
It's going to be a pitch battle on this dirt,
and I'll be here with you, don't you worry.
I'll get told if I didn't leg up myself,
I'm going to find myself in a ditch
with a hole in me head and I think there'll be a few
bodies laying around before that happens.
You hear that? You hear the trucks?Yeah.
The trucks are already coming in.
There, the drill rigs are in today, today.
I'm leaving today and the drill rigs are here.
My goal is to have you guys move.
You and the family move,
and I'm not going to stop until it's done.Yep.
We know now that if you are impacted
as highly as what you are and what I've been --Yep.
...there is only one solution, and that's relocation.
As much as we love our property, we have to go.
♪♪
Where are we now?
Well, Jace is really sick today,
so is Lukey and Isabella.
Yeah.
When you can't sell your property,
it's actually worth nothing,
and that's what our property is worth.
It's either do the Caribbean thing,
which is pretty freaking hard to do with that many kids,
or I don't know.
Our part is just about played out. We're tired.
We done what we've can.
It's time to hand it on,
and we will go and have another adventure somewhere else.
This is my story.
What happens next, well, that's up to you.
♪♪
For those of you think Dayne Pratzky sold out,
think again.
This shit has just begun.
If you want to do something, you can.
We will make a difference.
Man: ♪ I'll be here in the morning ♪
♪ Cold chill in the morning ♪
♪ Won't you come up here and say which way you want to go ♪
♪ Say she put my heart in the lost and found ♪
♪ I don't care about North or West ♪
♪ Because I'm going down ♪
♪♪
♪ All your decisions are just ruled by fear ♪
♪ You misinterpret everything you hear ♪
♪ We grow pale under these dark clouds of depression ♪
♪ I got to break out ♪
♪ That's why I'm leaving this town ♪
♪ They always say things are getting better ♪
♪ Not when or how ♪
♪ I got to break out ♪
♪ That's why I'm leaving this town ♪
♪ The only way things ♪
What I've seen is mothers and fathers and women
and men and country people and city people,
all who have put their differences aside
to protect our land and our water.
[Cheering]
♪♪
♪ Wish I knew then what I know now ♪
We are winning this campaign, and we will win this campaign
because we've got no choice.
♪ I learned it all from the school of hard knocks ♪
♪ And now I've left myself with...[sings indistinctly] ♪
♪♪
This has been a community
fight like the likes of which our country hasn't seen
for many, many years.
♪♪
♪ Our bright ideas turn to dark and disdain ♪
♪ People tried to help you but you pushed them away ♪
♪ You know our whole lives ♪
♪ Is under those dark clouds of depression ♪
♪♪