Lock the Gate Alliance has released startling mapping showing the extent to which Queensland’s most precious farmland and environmental areas are under threat due to coal and gas mining.

A Parliamentary Petition to save prime agricultural land and important environmental areas north of Bundaberg from a planned coal mine has attracted more than 5,000 signatures.

The holding of a second hearing into the NSW Chief Scientist’s recommendations on coal seam gas in NSW is evidence the Berejiklian Government is not prepared to deal with the repercussions of the destructive industry, according to Lock the Gate Alliance.

New Hope Group, owner of the New Acland coal mine on Queensland’s Darling Downs, is threatening an 84-year-old grandmother who is an alpaca farmer at Oakey.

The NSW Government looks set to weaken the Independent Planning Commission following a review by the Productivity Commission, potentially putting the Narrabri CSG project on a fast-track following the ‘energy deal’ announced yesterday.