The Baralaba South project is a proposed new, open-cut coal mine located on prime agricultural land in central Queensland, just 500m from the Dawson River on a floodplain where the river spreads to 11km wide during floods. Local farmers and other community members have been fighting this proposal for more than a decade. Read more....
Lake Eyre Basin
At the last two elections, the Queensland Government promised to protect the mighty floodplains of the Channel Country in the Lake Eyre Basin. But they haven’t delivered, and now Origin Energy have applied to frack for gas across 11 leases covering over 225,000 hectares of land. Read more....
Northern Territory Fracking
Unconventional gas exploration and fracking is already underway in the Roper Gulf region of the Northern Territory, with a number of companies undertaking exploration drilling in the region. Read more....
