Lock the Gate Alliance has hit back at remarks from the National Secretary of the AWU in response to NSW Labor’s commitment to stop the Narrabri CSG project in north-west NSW.

Lock the Gate alliance is calling on the Independent Planning Commission to reject the Hume Coal mine, after the Department of Planning and Environment recommended against approving the project late last year.

Lock the Gate Alliance has welcomed Glencore’s statement today that it intends to restrict coal production to current levels because of climate change impacts, saying the decision makes sense at a time when the world is warming at an alarming rate due in large part to the burning of coal.

Lock the Gate Alliance has hit back at what it says is a hysterical and blinkered reaction by the NSW mining industry to the recent decision by the Land and Environment Court to uphold the Planning Commission’s refusal of the Rocky Hill coal mine near Gloucester.

Lock the Gate Alliance has dismissed a multi-pronged advertising campaign launched by Adani as a “bully billionaire’s whinge”, and has commended the Queensland Government for standing strong against the company’s propaganda machine.