Media Releases
Lock the Gate welcome inquiry but call for examination of policy solutions for community
January 28, 2015
Lock the Gate today welcomed the announcement from Energy and Resources Minister Lily D’Ambrosio that the government will maintain a moratorium on unconventional gas extraction while it conducts a year long parliamentary inquiry into the industry.
Read MoreQld Election: Why Alan Jones couldn’t speak to Brian Linforth about huge mine
January 28, 2015
Brian Linforth could not tell media commentator, Alan Jones on air this morning why he is trying to stop the Colton open-cut mine near Maryborough. Brian is terminally ill; he was taken to hospital yesterday and was unable to take Mr Jones’s call. He...
Read MoreLock 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...
Read MoreCSG 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...
Read MoreGolden 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...
Read More