Media Releases
Queensland ALP must learn from the LNP’s mistakes highlighted at Toowoomba Senate hearing today
February 19, 2015
The Senate hearings in Queensland are a wonderful opportunity for the new State Government to learn from past mistakes and avoid the LNP’s ‘coal and casinos’ approach to economic development. Lock the Gate Alliance’s President, Drew Hutton said the Senate hearing in Toowoomba today...
Read MoreSecret documents show collusion to push through Warkworth project
February 18, 2015
New documents, released under freedom of information laws, provide disturbing evidence that senior bureaucrats in the NSW government worked closely with Rio Tinto to push through a biodiversity offset package, at break-neck speed and with considerable irregularities, to help ensure the Warkworth open cut...
Read MoreMike Baird must resist coal industry pressure and restore balance
February 17, 2015
The Lock the Gate Alliance is calling on the New South Wales Government to resist an aggressive pre-election lobbying push by the mining industry and fulfill outstanding commitments to protect farmland and water from coal and gas mining before the public goes to the...
Read MorePlea for the Plains: protesting farmers ask Cabinet to listen
February 17, 2015
A group of farmers and other community members from the Liverpool Plains are today protesting at the Tamworth office of Federal Agriculture Minister, Barnaby Joyce, calling on him to ensure the Federal Government rejects the controversial Shenhua Watermark coal mine.
Read MoreBig mining makes outrageous attempt to shut down right of farmers to speak out about coal seam gas mining
February 16, 2015
The NSW Minerals Council has today made an outrageous attempt to shut down the right of farmers to speak out about their concerns on the impacts of coal seam gas mining, according to The Lock the Gate Alliance.National Coordinator of the Lock the Gate Alliance, Phil Laird,...
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