Media Releases
Peaceful action launched to protect Gloucester Valley from coal seam gas
August 07, 2014
Around thirty farmers and residents of villages in the Gloucester Valley are this morning holding a protest vigil at the site where AGL plans to frack coal seam gas wells on farmland in the area, vowing to begin a sustained campaign of peaceful direct...
Read MoreMining Ministers “Tara” moment at Gloucester
August 06, 2014
Media Release 6.8.2014 Mining and Energy Minister Anthony Roberts has announced the renewal of PEL 285 at Gloucester late today. The announcement confirms the use of drilling and fracking by AGL within 2 kms of residents homes after the State Environment Planning Policy was...
Read MoreNew Warkworth mine expansion should be quashed
August 06, 2014
Bulga Milbrodale Progress Association and the Lock The Gate Alliance have called on NSW Planning Minister Prue Goward to cancel the assessment process for a proposed expansion of Rio Tinto's Warkworth coal mine in the Hunter Valley.
Read MoreCall for halt on any further CSG approvals following Tara buy outs
August 04, 2014
The Lock the Gate Alliance has called for a comprehensive investigation into the health impacts of coal seam gas after it was revealed that QGC had been forced to buy out residents in Tara whose health had suffered as a result of living in...
Read MoreLock the Gate’s Drew Hutton to be profiled on ABC’s Australian Story program
July 31, 2014
Lock the Gate Alliance national president, Drew Hutton will be the subject of next Monday’s (August 4) Australian Story program on the ABC.
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