{"id":10959,"date":"2013-10-31T07:17:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?page_id=10959"},"modified":"2013-10-31T17:57:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T06:57:13","slug":"penny-blatchford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/penny-blatchford\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Blatchford &#8211; @NoCSGGurley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10960\" alt=\"Penny Blatchford pic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Penny-Blatchford-pic-273x300.png?resize=273%2C300\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Penny-Blatchford-pic.png?resize=273%2C300&amp;ssl=1 273w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Penny-Blatchford-pic.png?w=597&amp;ssl=1 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Penny Blatchford is a farmer who lives with her husband and three children\u00a0at Gurley, near Moree, on a dryland cropping farm.<\/p>\n<p>She has a Bachelor of Business (Ag Commerce), is a board member of Lock the Gate, was awarded an Environment Award for the Parkes Electorate 2012\/13 and is chair of the Bellata Gurley Action Group Against Gas Inc NSW.<\/p>\n<p>Penny ran as The Greens&#8217; #3 candidate for the Senate in the recent federal election.<\/p>\n<p>Penny has been involved with the movement against CSG mining since 2010, when she was approached by CSG exploration company Planet Gas\/Leichhardt resources PEL470 (Bellata\/Gurley\/Terry Hie Hie).<\/p>\n<p>This approach united landowners in the region, 100% of whom signed a document asking the NSW Government not to renew the licence and to grant no further licences in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Penny&#8217;s interests are legislation, regulation and policy development with respect to gas mining both federally and at state level.<\/p>\n<p>Penny&#8217;s blog is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennyblatchford.com\/\">www.pennyblatchford.com<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny Blatchford is a farmer who lives with her husband and three children\u00a0at Gurley, near Moree, on a dryland cropping farm. She has a Bachelor of Business (Ag Commerce), is a board member of Lock the Gate, was awarded an Environment Award for the Parkes Electorate 2012\/13 and is chair of the Bellata Gurley Action [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3t0mw-2QL","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}