Media Releases

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...

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...

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...

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.

January 22, 2015

A conservation officer from the Office of Environment and Heritage has resigned from his position over what he describes as capture of the Department of Planning and the Office of Environment and Heritage by the coal and gas industries, leading to the real possibility...