Stealing the Hunter’s beauty robs it of a future

Over the past 150 years, the Tyrrell family have been winemakers, property owners and community members of the Hunter Valley wine region. Over the decades we have seen off a number of threats to our industry. Today we are faced with a new one: coal seam gas. Like most of the Hunter Valley vignerons, I am not anti-mining but, above all, I believe firmly in the need for food and water security, writes Hunter Valley winemaker Bruce Tyrrell in the Sydney Morning Herald.