Media Releases

Community pleads with New Hope shareholders to consider landholders impacted by their coal mines

November 19, 2015

Concerned community members gathered at the New Hope Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Ipswich today to plead with the company’s shareholders to help landholders who will be negatively affected by proposed New Hope coal mine expansions. The event focused on New Hope’s proposed expansion...

Lock the Gate Alliance: Turnbull must come clean on mining objection rights

November 18, 2015

Lock the Gate Alliance is disappointed that the Government appears to be pressing ahead with its agenda to take away access to the courts for farmers whose livelihoods depend on a healthy environment, with the handing down today of a committee report recommending the...

Minister Lynham’s media release on water more spin than substance: Qld water expert

November 10, 2015

Natural Resources and Mines Minister Dr Anthony Lynham’s media release claiming new laws will protect waterways and farmers’ rights is ‘simply media spin’, says water expert, Tom Crothers. Mr Crothers, a former General Manager of Water Allocation and Planning in the Queensland Government, said...

Hundreds join Liverpool Plains farmers’ and Traditional Owners mine fight, declare they will return

November 08, 2015

Over 600 hundred people joined farmers and Traditional Owners over the weekend in a historic gathering in opposition to the proposed Watermark open cut coal mine on the Liverpool Plains, declaring they will return to support peaceful protest at the site if the mine...

EXPERT REPORT RAISES RED FLAG ABOUT HANDING MINERS UNLIMITED WATER IN QUEENSLAND

November 08, 2015

A new report by expert and former General Manager of Water Allocation and Planning in the Qld Government, Tom Crothers, has warned that providing miners with a statutory right to take water is likely to result in the ‘unsustainable take of groundwater’ and may...