The who’s who of country music will jam against drought, gas, and coal this Wednesday night at the 13th Country Music Cares gig in Tamworth.

New Hope Group, owner of the New Acland coal mine, is attempting to game the system after allowing highly productive agricultural land it owns on the Darling Downs to degrade just so it can be mined, according to Lock the Gate Alliance.

Concerned Territorians have paid Environment Minister Eva Lawler a surprise visit at her electorate office in Palmerston in response to her sneaky decision to approve Origin Energy’s plan to frack the Beetaloo Basin two days before Christmas.

Lock the Gate Alliance is calling on the NSW Government to show political leadership and seize the upcoming opportunity to cancel Shenhua’s planned destructive Liverpool Plains coal mine.

Protect Country Alliance is deeply concerned following news overnight the Origin Energy/Falcon Oil and Gas owned Kyalla well in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin has become unstable during horizontal drilling.