Media Releases
Doctor says the Qld Government ignores coal seam gas health problems
January 28, 2015
A Queensland doctor told media commentator, Alan Jones today the State Government was ignoring csg-related health problems. Dr Geralyn McCarron, a Queensland GP, said she had become aware of “strange and unexplained symptoms” including blood-noses, headaches, fatigue, nausea and vomiting in people living at...
Read MoreLock the Gate welcome inquiry but call for examination of policy solutions for community
January 28, 2015
Lock the Gate today welcomed the announcement from Energy and Resources Minister Lily D’Ambrosio that the government will maintain a moratorium on unconventional gas extraction while it conducts a year long parliamentary inquiry into the industry.
Read MoreQld Election: Why Alan Jones couldn’t speak to Brian Linforth about huge mine
January 28, 2015
Brian Linforth could not tell media commentator, Alan Jones on air this morning why he is trying to stop the Colton open-cut mine near Maryborough. Brian is terminally ill; he was taken to hospital yesterday and was unable to take Mr Jones’s call. He...
Read MoreLock the Gate tells inquiry: don't make more mistakes on CSG
January 28, 2015
The NSW Parliamentary inquiry into to the supply and cost of gas and liquid fuels in New South Wales has heard this morning from the Lock the Gate Alliance that CSG miners are costing NSW households dearly due to rising gas prices, and that...
Read MoreCSG freeze needed after cancer-causing chemicals detected at Gloucester
January 27, 2015
Lock The Gate Alliance has called on the NSW Government to freeze all CSG projects in the state after cancer causing BTEX chemicals were detected in fracking waste water at Gloucester.“AGL's alarming pollution monitoring results in Gloucester highlight the risk fracking poses to our...
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