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.

Qld 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...

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...