Greens candidate John Mackenzie led a snap protest action at Bar Beach Saturday declaring Newcastle would never accept offshore gas exploration off the Hunter coast.
Mr Mackenzie, a Newcastle councillor who won preselection for the Greens in November, described the proposal to explore for offshore gas along the Hunter coast as "extraordinary" and "monstrous" at the weekend, and demanded his state and federal political counterparts listen to the objections of the electorate against extending an energy company's expired permit to do so.
