Media Releases
The Speaker to pass on community objection rights concerns to Qld Premier
July 13, 2015
The Speaker, Peter Wellington, today accepted a landmark document from Darling Downs residents seeking to have the rights of the community to object to coal mines re-instated. The previous LNP government took away the rights of local communities to have their objections to coordinated...
Read MoreLock the Gate demands cost-benefit analysis on CSG before Qld government props up devastating industry
July 09, 2015
Lock the Gate Alliance has demanded a cost-benefit analysis be undertaken on the coal seam gas (CSG) industry in light of the Queensland government’s misleading statements about its benefits. The Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Anthony Lynham claims the industry will keep energy...
Read MoreHunt approves Shenhua coal mine, trashes NSW’s food bowl
July 08, 2015
Today’s Federal approval of Shenhua’s open cut coal mine on the Liverpool Plains is a blow for NSW‘s food bowl, farmers, the natural environment and the region’s water security, says the Lock the Gate Alliance and Liverpool Plains Youth.Felix Nankivell, a son of third...
Read MoreQueensland farmers and Senators visit Sydney to hold Tony Abbott to CSG promise
July 07, 2015
Two Queensland women have travelled to Sydney and joined forces with Queensland Senators Glenn Lazarus and Larissa Waters to deliver a petition to the Prime Ministers Manly electorate office today asking him to deliver coal seam gas protections promised when he first took office. ...
Read MorePlanning reform rights wrong: fight far from over
July 07, 2015
Bulga residents, battling Rio Tinto’s Warkworth mine extension in the Hunter Valley, have welcomed the Baird government’s draft changes to NSW mining planning policy as a step forward in bringing back balance to consideration of the environmental and social impacts of mining projects.
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