The Land Court decision on New Acland’s Stage 3 coal expansion acknowledges the severe impacts noise and dust from the existing mine have had on nearby farmers and other residents.

Lock the Gate Alliance has accused the Queensland Palaszczuk Government of breaking a long standing election promise and conducting sham community consultation after it quietly granted Origin Energy 200,000 hectares of petroleum leases across large areas of Lake Eyre Basin flood plains.

Farmers, Traditional Owners, and community groups will denounce banks’ support of fossil fuel projects that are having a devastating impact on regional Australia as three of the big four financial institutions hold their annual general meetings in the coming days.

Lock the Gate Alliance has welcomed the NSW Government’s decision not to release land in the Rylstone district for new coal exploration. 

Far too much public money has already been wasted on the polluting unconventional gas industry, and Angus Taylor’s “gas investment framework” announcement today will do nothing to help the Australian economy recover from Covid-19.