Media Releases
New open-cut mine upwind of Muswellbrook will worsen air quality: critics say health and environmental impacts have been ignored
July 04, 2018
Critics of a proposal to extend the life of the new Mount Pleasant open-cut coal mine Mount Pleasant on the outskirts of Muswellbrook say concerns about the cumulative health and environmental impact of the mine with other large open cuts in the area have...
Read MoreMining industry gets more protection than Sydney’s drinking water catchment
July 02, 2018
Lock the Gate Alliance says an Audit Office investigation into the regulation of pollution in drinking water catchments exposes the appalling consequences of the NSW Government decision last year to change the law to allow pollution by coal mines to continue.
Read MoreKimberley: elevated levels of chemical and radioactive waste in its fracking ponds
June 25, 2018
Buru Energy has admitted that testing of flowback fluids from its 2015 fracking operations in the Kimberley showed elevated levels of the chemical contaminants Boron and Barium and the radionuclide Radium-228.
Read MoreLock the Gate urges reinstatement of legal check and balance in wake of Wollar court loss
June 20, 2018
The devastating loss yesterday of Wollar Progress Association’s judicial review challenge to the approval of the Wilpinjong coal mine expansion has prompted Lock the Gate Alliance to call on the New South Wales Government to restore full legal appeal rights to communities affected by...
Read MoreAdani to take 10 billion litres river water without Federal environmental assessment
June 13, 2018
Lock the Gate says plans by Adani to avoid a full Federal environmental impact assessment of their plans to take 10 billion litres of river water in Central Queensland are dangerous, and undermine Federal environment laws. Adani recently submitted a referral under the Federal...
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