Your regular donation will defend clean water and healthy communities from risky coal and gas mining!

Regular contributions give Lock the Gate the ability to plan and work effectively to prevent environmental damage and stop dangerous pollution from coal and gas expansion. 

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Help us combat Morrison’s dangerous push to bribe state governments to unleash fracking and CSG across the country.

Our communities are calling for renewable energy with storage, not polluting gas.  Gas is not a transition fuel, it’s a one way street to more greenhouse emissions.

Your donation helps local communities under threat to choose renewables not gas: 

-$50 will let farmers and communities speak out in the media and get the facts to voters;

-$75 will go towards supporting renewable energy projects in affected regions that have community support;

-$100 will contribute to scientific & economic reports for media and submissions.

Naomi from Lock the Gate on Sky talking about why farmers are standing firm against the Santos Narrabri gas project

Please chip in to support the legal appeal on the Acland Stage 3 coal mine on the Darling Downs.

Last year, the Land Court found recommended against the mine because the impacts on groundwater would be too severe and the noise and dust impacts too great.  You can read a short summary of the Land Court decision here. Then earlier this year, the Queensland environment department rejected an Environmental Authority for the mine. 

But New Hope Coal appealed the Land Court decision, and the Supreme Court found in their favour, ruling that the Land Court did not have the jurisdiction to reject the mine on groundwater grounds.

That represents a major change in legal interpretation which will also mean groundwater can not be considered by the Land Court in future legal cases against coal mines.  

However, local farmers have now lodged their own appeal to the Supreme Court decision, in a bid to stop this damaging project once and for all.

This legal challenge is the final hurdle. If the farmers succeed, then the project will be finished. Please chip in to help them get it across the line. It's a fight for the Great Artesian Basin and the right to protect groundwater statewide - and we can't afford to lose.

Make Coal Giants Pay for Mine Clean-Up

Our new report – Abandoned Mines in Queensland: Toxic Time-bomb or Employment Opportunity? – calls for big mining companies to cover the cost of rehabilitating the State’s abandoned mines and estimates that this would generate 6000 jobs in regional Queensland!

There are too many large abandoned mines, and the full cost of cleaning them up is too large and should not fall on taxpayers. If mines are levied to pay for the clean up, they can also create jobs in the process.

Why should we miss out on hundreds of schools and hospitals because we’re footing the bill for the mess left behind by irresponsible mining companies?

References:

• Dodging clean up costs Six tricks coal mining companies play (pdf)

• Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry Report (pdf)
• ACF Mine Rehab Stories
• Abandoned Mines in Queensland Report
• NSW Coal Pit Legacy
• Mine Rehab Closure Cost Report
• Rhetoric Vs Reality. Rehab performance snapshot

Protect Australia's land and water from reckless coal and gas mining!

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