GRAPE growers say a proposed coalmine in Margaret River could poison the water supply and decimate the region's world-famous wine industry. The campaign against the Vasse Coal Project, an underground coalmine just 15km from the heart of the tourist town and 1km from the Margaret River waterway, continued to 0gather momentum this week.
It comes as officials from LD Operations, the company behind the project, organised a series of meetings with business and community groups to try to win support for the mine and put a lid on growing public fury.
Vanya Cullen, owner of Cullen Wines, one of Margaret River's oldest wineries and its first to be fully organic, described the mine proposal as "madness".
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