Media Releases
Revealed: Warkworth mine expansion project “unlawful”
December 15, 2014
The law firm acting for Rio Tinto, Minter Ellison, told the State Government last year that it believed re-lodging an application for the extension of the Warkworth mine in the Hunter Valley after approval for it had been overturned by the Land and Environment...
Read MoreNSW coal seam gas regulations falls short of international best practice: EDO NSW Report
December 11, 2014
A new report outlining what a ‘world class’ regulatory regime for coal seam gas would look like for NSW was released by the EDO NSW this week. The NSW Government has committed to ‘world class’ laws to protect water, natural assets, farmland and community...
Read MorePastoralists support Mithaka aspirations for the Channel Country
December 04, 2014
The Cooper's Creek Protection Group has lent its support to the Mithaka people in the Channel Country who are seeking UN intervention in a battle over oil and gas development in the Lake Eyre Basin. Spokesperson Dr Bob Morrish said that like the Channel...
Read MoreLNP’s South Galilee mine approval wrong on every level
December 03, 2014
While the world moves on from fossil fuels, the State Government continues to stick its collective heads in the sand with the approval of the South Galilee mine in Central Queensland. The Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney’s media release talks up another coal mine as...
Read MoreWallabies star David Pocock joins the Leard Forest Blockade
November 30, 2014
Wallabies rugby player and former captain David Pocock has joined the Leard Forest blockade to help bring an end to the Maules Creek coal mine in north-west NSW.
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