Media Releases
OPINION PIECE: Drew Hutton, President of Lock the Gate Alliance
March 23, 2015
World Water Day highlights sustainability problems World Water Day on Sunday should give us pause for thought here on the driest continent on earth. But here in Queensland, preference is still given to mining and coal seam gas enterprises with limited life, over the...
Read MoreQueensland pastoralists call for laws to protect wellspring of life On World Water Day
March 22, 2015
Graziers in Queensland's remote Channel Country are calling for permanent, statutory protection for rivers, wetlands and floodplains."As far as we know, life can't exist without water,” said Dr Bob Morrish of the Cooper's Creek Protection Group, "It's entirely reasonable, sensible and logical to have...
Read MoreLock the Gate Alliance welcomes Labor’s Pilliga promise
March 20, 2015
The Lock the Gate Alliance says that the ALP’s promise to permanently ban coal seam gas in the Pilliga forest in North West New South Wales is a hugely significant and welcome commitment and has called on the Baird Government to give North West...
Read MoreMining hotspots fire up communities in crucial electorates
March 19, 2015
Lock the Gate Alliance has today released a map showing mining and coal seam gas (CSG) hotspots where actions by the NSW Government over this past term have put land, water and communities at risk and subsequently led to tightly contested races in the upcoming NSW election.
Read MoreTamworth voters won’t swallow coal and gas mining in North West
March 17, 2015
A new poll commissioned by Lock the Gate Alliance has revealed that an overwhelming majority of Tamworth voters are opposed to plans for coal and coal seam gas mining in north-west NSW.
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