Media Releases
EPA gives Santos and AGL “blank cheque” on harmful pollutants
September 02, 2014
The Lock the Gate Alliance has revealed that the Environment Protection Agency has given Santos and AGL pollution licences for controversial coal seam gas exploration projects that impose no limit on the volume of toxic gases emitted into the air from flaring. The revelation...
Read MoreResidents raise alarm as CSG well discharges gas 200m from houses
September 01, 2014
Last night residents at Spring Farm in greater Western Sydney raised the alarm when they observed gas discharging from an AGL CSG well just 200m from their homes in a local residential estate. Lock the Gate Coordinator for western Sydney Dan Robins said residents...
Read MoreLandholders celebrate Gasfield Free Declaration in Banjo’s “land of rock and scrub”
August 31, 2014
More than 55,000 ha will be added to the national tally of land declared Gasfield Free by local communities when the residents of Wandobah, near Gunnedah in NSW make their community declaration today, Sunday, August 31.
Read MoreCarmichael mine: still no answers on groundwater
August 29, 2014
An environmental approval has been issued to what will be the country’s largest and most damaging coal mine with key information and limits on groundwater impacts still yet to be understood, according to the Lock the Gate Alliance.
Read MoreLock the Gate welcomes progress in land and mining conflict
August 29, 2014
The Lock the Gate Alliance has welcomed the Government’s pledge to implement all of the 32 recommendations from the Walker review of the arbitration process for land access by mining companies, though it falls short of giving landholders the right to refuse access.
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