Media Releases

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...

Media Alert: Is nothing sacred: Has QLD Govt flogged off Acland War memorial to New Hope Coal?

January 23, 2015

Lock the Gate Alliance is calling for the Qld Government and New Hope Coal to come clean about the future of the Acland War Memorial and Tom Doherty Park. The Alliance has called on the Government to prevent the public park containing the memorial...

FOI reveals CSG drilling under Sydney homes

January 23, 2015

Documents obtained under freedom of information laws reveal for the first time that coal seam gas wells have been drilled directly under suburbs in south-west Sydney.