Media Releases
First major legal test for coal mine methane pollution in Maules Creek court challenge
May 14, 2024
A regional NSW community group’s court case will be the first ever legal challenge testing the failure of the State Government to control dangerous methane emissions from coal mines, which make an enormous contribution to climate change.
Read MoreKing reprises Scott Morrison’s failed ‘gas-fired recovery’ with Future Gas Strategy
May 09, 2024
Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King has released a Future Gas Strategy this morning that reprises Scott Morrison’s failed ‘gas-fired recovery’, with a focus on promoting gas expansions that will blow Australia’s climate targets. The Strategy is likely to lead to a renewed push to...
Read MoreNT Government signs fracked gas supply deal for project it hasn’t even approved yet
April 23, 2024
Top End groups have labelled the fracking assessment process in the Territory as fatally compromised after US petroleum company Tamboran announced to the ASX that it had signed a deal to supply gas to the NT Government from a pilot project that is yet to receive...
Read MoreFeds falter on water, climate as Empire launches new NT frack attack
April 19, 2024
The Albanese Government’s promised climate and water protections are nowhere to be seen as fracking companies ramp up activity in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin.
Read MoreMedia release: New high level push to give communities the right to challenge big, environmentally destructive projects
April 16, 2024
Enshrining communities’ right to challenge the merits of large, environmentally destructive projects in law would drastically improve integrity in decision making, restore the public’s faith in a broken system, and lead to better outcomes for nature, according to a groundbreaking new expert report.
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