Approving Whitehaven’s destructive Vickery coal mine expansion would have a terrible impact on local communities, farmland, the environment, and national heritage, according to Lock the Gate Alliance. 

Lock the Gate Alliance has condemned the referral of Santos’ Narrabri coal seam gas project to the Independent Planning Commission just days after a Parliamentary Inquiry found there was a severe lack of information and regulation related to the industry.

Lock the Gate Alliance has welcomed comments by NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean agreeing that coal seam gas development in the state should not proceed ahead of implementation of five-year old recommendations from the Chief Scientist.

Lock the Gate Alliance is urging the Berejiklian Government to scrap legislation discouraging planning authorities from considering downstream greenhouse gas emissions from coal mines or gasfields given almost universal opposition to the move. 

New Right To Information documents and mapping analysis have revealed the Palaszczuk Labor Government has opened up swathes of fragile Channel Country floodplains in Queensland's south-west to potential shale gas fracking.