Lock the Gate Alliance WA is alarmed the McGowan Government has begun giving taxpayer grants to companies hoping to frack the iconic Kimberley region.

Lock the Gate Alliance welcomes the Berejiklian Government’s announcement today that the destructive Shenhua coal mine slated for the Liverpool Plains will not proceed.

Lock the Gate Alliance has called on the NSW Berejiklian Government to let farmers and Gomeroi Traditional Custodians know whether Shenhua has formally agreed to abandon plans for the Watermark coal mine on the Liverpool Plains.  

Landholders and business owners were shocked to learn of Berejiklian Government plans to open new areas of land to coal exploration in the Upper Hunter west of the Blue Mountains during a meeting held in Rylstone on Sunday.

Queensland community groups have written to the state Environment Minister calling on the Palaszczuk Government to urgently fix loopholes in new rehabilitation legislation after a mining company was able to argue down the cost of a bond by more than $45M in court.