Media Releases
Queensland 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.
Read MoreSale of AGL's Hunter and Sydney PELs welcome
July 06, 2015
Lock the Gate Alliance has welcomed the reprieve from the threat of coal seam gas for wine-makers in the Hunter and the water catchments of Sydney and the Central Coast with the announcement by AGL that they are selling three Petroleum Exploration Licences back...
Read MoreNew Hope Coal paying royalties to themselves: Queensland communities left out in the cold
July 05, 2015
New revelations that controversial mining company New Hope Coal has been paying royalties to themselves has sparked community outrage, and led to calls for the Palaszczuk Government to reject the Acland Stage 3 coal mine expansion. The project has already raised alarm bells because...
Read MoreQueensland and Tasmanian students join “shocking tour” of the coal seam gasfields
July 03, 2015
Western Downs’ local, Shay Dougall took a busload of university students and a Tasmanian researcher on an eye-opening tour yesterday to give them some first-hand experience of the realities of living in the gasfields. Mrs Dougall, spokesperson for the Hopeland Community Sustainability Group, said...
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