Media Releases
Seeney backflips on promise to protect landholders from multiple coal rail line developments
May 22, 2014
Lock the Gate has called on Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney, to end the deceit after he announced, yesterday his support for three rail lines connecting the coal mines in the Galilee Basin to Abbot Point, reversing his promise of June 2012 to limit rail...
Read MoreFarmers Take Santos to Court in Search for Answers on Bore Water Contamination
May 21, 2014
Farmers in north-west NSW have today launched legal proceedings to force CSG company Santos to produce all of the information it holds relating to possible contamination of two water bores on a farmers property, south of Narrabri. In 2012, a farmer whose land adjoins...
Read MoreCoal dust is a serious health hazard – with worse to come
May 21, 2014
Every year 3,500 uncovered coal trains carrying nine million tonnes of coal, rumble through Brisbane on their way to the port near Wynnum, spewing coal dust throughout the suburbs.
Read MoreCSG export push will increase household gas bills by up to $162 per year
May 21, 2014
Domestic consumers and Australian manufacturing industries are being forced to pay higher prices for gas just to meet the CSG industry’s push to export product overseas, the Lock the Gate Alliance says in its submission to IPART today. The submission lifts the lid on...
Read MoreQueensland Government prioritises mines over agricultural land: new evidence
May 20, 2014
The Queensland Government is sacrificing valuable agricultural land to the coal industry and has scrapped laws that once prevented this from happening. The Lock the Gate Alliance spokesperson, Ellie Smith said half of Queensland’s $766 million agricultural production in 2010 to 2011 came from...
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