Media Releases

Lock 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...

CSG 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...

Golden Guitar winner Luke O'Shea and father in Maules Creek protest

January 27, 2015

Country Music star and winner of three Golden Guitars* at last weekend’s Tamworth Country Music Festival, Luke O’Shea, has locked himself to Whitehaven Coal’s pump that draws water from the Namoi River this morning to join the community blockade against the Maules Creek coal...

Mining Scorecard: Independents & Minor Parties Stand Up for Land & Water

January 27, 2015

The results are in on Lock the Gate Alliance’s candidates’ survey for the Queensland State Election - with the independents and minor parties blitzing the field and leaving the two major parties in their wake when it came to protecting land and water from...

Lock the Gate Hits the Airwaves

January 23, 2015

The Lock the Gate Alliance will start a radio advertising campaign today (Saturday 24th ) targeting rural, regional and metropolitan areas of Queensland in the lead up to the State Election. “We’re launching radio ads because the impact of coal and gas mining on...