Media Releases

Acland Mine protest with a joyful message of hope at Jackie Trad’s office

October 01, 2015

It was a protest with a difference today outside Deputy Premier, Jackie Trad’s office with city and country coming together to work towards a more productive and fairer Queensland. The quick-stitching Knitting Nannas and the all-singing, all-dancing Queensland Sadies joined forces with more traditional...

Queensland Government response to water rights ‘simply media spin’: Lock the Gate

September 30, 2015

Lock the Gate Alliance President, Drew Hutton, said the State Government’s response to claims that it was planning to give miners a statutory right to take unlimited volumes of groundwater was “simply media spin”. “If the State Government’s proposed changes mean that mining companies...

Gloucester residents challenge AGL board on coal seam gas

September 30, 2015

Residents of the NSW town of Gloucester have travelled to Melbourne to ask questions of the AGL’s Board at the company’s Annual General Meeting today about the company’s controversial coal seam gas project next to their community. Supportive Victorians are expected to rally in...

State Government wants to give miners unlimited rights to take precious groundwater

September 30, 2015

Queenslanders should be outraged that the State Government is considering giving unlimited access to groundwater resources to mining companies while other water users have to comply with strict limits. According to an ABC report today the government is considering back-flipping on its pre-election promise...

Environmental disaster waiting to happen at many Queensland mines

September 29, 2015

The environmental disaster-waiting-to-happen at a silver mine near Texas on the Qld/NSW border should act as a major wake-up call to the State Government, says Lock the Gate Alliance. The abandoned mine has apparently left a “toxic legacy” with possible spills of heavy metals...