Media Releases

November 17, 2016

The Land Court judgement handed down today on the proposed Colton open-cut coal mine, near Maryborough, has highlighted again that the current legal structure in Queensland is too weak to protect communities under threat from mining.

November 15, 2016

The Lock the Gate Alliance has urged the new NSW Nationals leadership team, including leader John Barilaro, to heed the lesson from the weekend’s by-election and stand with rural communities affected by the impacts of coal and coal seam gas on their land, their...

November 10, 2016

A midnight sitting of Parliament has seen the Queensland Government take the extraordinary step of amending its own Bill in order to appease Indian coal miner, Adani, by short-circuiting public notification rules around water licences.

November 07, 2016

An Alliance of community groups has announced it will boycott the public hearing of the Planning Assessment Commission review into the Wilpinjong Extension coal project, calling the event a “meaningless sham set up to deny the public our legal right to challenge mine approvals...

November 04, 2016

With the Katter’s Australian Party in Qld Parliament looking like voting against new laws designed to protect water for farmers, Lock the Gate will tomorrow launch a radio, print and online advertising campaign in regional Qld calling out the Katters for doing the dirty...