The outrage that led to Mark Vaile today declaring he will not accept the role of Chancellor at the University of Newcastle demonstrates that the company he chairs - Whitehaven Coal - is too toxic to be associated with public leadership, according to Lock the Gate Alliance.

A new analysis of the region earmarked for release to coal mining in Central West NSW has revealed what could be lost if Berejiklian Government plans are successful.

The NT Gunner Government’s decision to sacrifice an area of land bigger than Belgium to the fracking industry is stupid at a time when the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is so great, according to Protect Country Alliance.

Resource Minister Keith Pitt’s enthusiasm to sacrifice sustainable outback agricultural enterprises and the last free flowing desert rivers in the world to fracking might win support from the extraction industry, but is utterly removed from reality, according to Lock the Gate Alliance.

Only two out of more than 250 submissions in response to the Morrison Government’s Kurri Kurri gas fired power plant supported the project, evidence Lock the Gate says shows there is near universal opposition to the polluting and uneconomic gas-fired flop.