Media Releases

Western Downs’ landholders to give evidence at Senate Hearing in Brisbane tomorrow

July 26, 2015

Western Downs’ farmers impacted by invasive coal seam gas projects look forward to giving evidence at Monday’s public enquiry into landholders’ rights to refuse to have mining companies on their properties. Witnesses to give evidence at the Senate Hearing include Hopeland Community Sustainability Group...

Midwest communities cautiously celebrate decision to abort fracking well

July 24, 2015

Frack Free Mid West Gascoyne Alliance has welcomed a decision by oil and gas company AWE to abandon plans to frack its Drover 1 well south-east of Green Head. Frack Free Mid West Gascoyne Coordinator Jo Franklin said the decision, announced to the stock...

Yancoal job cuts follow expansion approval: systemic adjustment needed

July 24, 2015

Lock the Gate Alliance says the announcement by Yancoal Australia of over 200 job cuts at its Austar and Abel coal mines in the Hunter region shows the urgent need for structural adjustment in the thermal coal mining sector, as the local industry flounders...

Minister should approach Chinese Govt about Shenhua record

July 24, 2015

Lock the Gate Alliance has welcomed news that the Minister for Resources and Energy and his department will be investigating whether Shenhua Australia, the proponents of the planned Watermark coal mine on the Liverpool Plains, are a 'fit and proper person' to hold a...

Senator Glenn Lazarus joins locals at coal mine & gasfields free event at the Southern Downs

July 21, 2015

Queensland Senator Glenn Lazarus will be keynote speaker at the Southern Downs on Saturday (July 25) when locals declare their wish for the region to become coal mine and gasfields free. Ninety-two per cent of residents in Goomburra, Allora and Berat voted against the...