Media Releases

LNP Government must make good on promise to protect food bowl from coal seam gas drilling

October 28, 2024

Lock the Gate Alliance calls on the new QLD Government to make good on its promise to protect a critical groundwater source from the impacts and risks of expanding coal seam gas drilling.

Open slather destruction: Territory Government to override environmental laws to wave through big fracking projects

October 25, 2024

Territorians have condemned a CLP Finocchiaro Government plan to give unprecedented sweeping powers to a new bureaucrat known as the “Territory Coordinator” that would allow the Chief Minister to override existing environmental regulations and wave through major projects like fracking in the Beetaloo Basin.

Fracking company supplied contradictory info to feds on Kimberley threatened species

October 23, 2024

An American oil and gas company has provided contradictory information to the federal environment department over the impact of a planned fracking project on threatened species in Western Australia’s Kimberley region.

From a tiger's bite to a Moo Deng gum - Cook Government rips teeth from EPA

October 18, 2024

Fracking projects planned for Western Australia’s Kimberley pose an even greater threat after the Cook Government passed legislation to weaken the Environmental Protection Authority.

Glencore backs down on monster HVO coal mine expansion

October 11, 2024

Glencore and Yancoal have withdrawn the largest coal mining project ever proposed in NSW from consideration under Federal environment law, in a move that could prevent more than one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions being released into the atmosphere.