Media Releases
Report reveals monstrous amount of water needed for Galilee Basin mega mines
May 25, 2020
About 44,000 Olympic swimming pools worth of surface water could be needed each year for the 11 Galilee Basin mega-coal mines planned for the Belyando‐Suttor sub‐catchment, an expert hydrological report has found.
Read MoreGunner’s gas cash giveaway leaves Territorians flabbergasted
May 22, 2020
The Gunner Government’s bizarre decision to side with the Morrison Government and waste more taxpayer funds propping up polluting fracking gasfields will threaten communities, damage the environment, and push the Territory’s fragile economy further into the doldrums.
Read MorePublic shouldn’t pay gas companies to wreck NT’s Beetaloo
May 21, 2020
Protect Country Alliance is disgusted following revelations a manufacturing taskforce advising the National Covid-19 Coordination Commission (NCCC) wants to sink public money into propping up fracking in the NT's Beetaloo basin.
Read MoreAustralian Taxpayers must not be forced to prop up unstable gas industry
May 21, 2020
Australian taxpayers absolutely should not be forced to subsidise the unstable and polluting gas industry, nor should communities who have spent more than a decade fighting gasfields suddenly have them forced upon them, according to Lock the Gate Alliance.
Read MoreFire and drought decimated koalas can’t bear Shenhua’s coal mine
May 21, 2020
Lock the Gate Alliance is calling on NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes to revoke mining giant Shenhua’s approval to clear koala habitat for its Watermark coal project, after fire and drought combined to ravage the iconic species' population.
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