Media Releases

Shenhua and other coal projects greenlighted to clear thousands of hectares of critically endangered bush

August 13, 2015

Analysis by the Lock the Gate Alliance released today has shown an area of native vegetation greater than the size of Royal National Park south of Sydney has been approved for clearing in the Hunter Valley and Gunnedah Basin since 2010. The report, Greg...

Lock the Gate says Ministers Hunt and Lynham must seize the opportunity with Adani mine

August 13, 2015

Lock the Gate’s National President, Drew Hutton today welcomed the Federal Court decision to overturn the approval of Adani’s Carmichael mine saying even the courts were now recognising that this was “the end of coal”. “We call on the Queensland and Federal governments to...

Mining Industry out of touch with community attitudes

August 05, 2015

Lock the Gate says that the latest statements from the Mining Industry (SMH 4.8.2015, “Public weighs in on mining laws”) has belled the cat on planning approvals over the last couple of decades. “What we have seen over the last decade or two is...

Three Southern Downs’ communities move to protect their land and livelihoods from invasive mining

July 29, 2015

Three Southern Downs’ communities - Goomburra, Allora and Berat - on the weekend overwhelmingly declared themselves coal mine and gasfield free at celebration at the historic Goomburra Hall. Comprehensive grassroots door-to-door surveys resulted in an average of 92 per cent of landholders agreeing that...

Pathetic response from State Government to dangerous methane blast at Western Downs

July 29, 2015

Western Downs landholders say the State Government’s response to two high-concentration methane blasts near Wandoan was “pathetic”. Shay Dougall from the Hopeland Community Sustainability Group demanded to see the company's risk assessment for the public and livestock and asked why the government was answering...