Media Releases
The Right of Reply the Australian Financial Review couldn't find the space to publish
August 25, 2014
This is Lock the Gate's opinion piece that the Australian Financial Review have said they didn't have space to publish. It follows last Monday's (August 18) front page story "Facts v Fiction: busting CSG myths" that then spilled to a two-page feature inside the...
Read MoreGlenwood Community United Against Coal and Gas
August 25, 2014
Around 200 residents of the Glenwood community, near Gympie met on Saturday morning to discuss the mining threat in their region. An overwhelming majority voted to keep their roads and land coalmine and gasfield free.
Read MoreDon't Give Water Trigger to States
August 25, 2014
Regional leaders urge Senate to vote down handing coal and coal seam gas mining approvals to states More than 180 rural and Indigenous leaders, scientists and farmers from right across Australia, including former Federal MP Tony Windsor, are calling for Australian Senators to vote...
Read MoreAPPEA withholding information from NSW on gas supply
August 21, 2014
The Lock the Gate Alliance has welcomed the refusal by Minister Anthony Roberts of Petroleum Exploration applications in Central New South Wales and called on the gas industry to come clean over gas prices and contracts after revelations in New South Wales parliament yesterday...
Read MoreWindsor Calls for Senators to Hold Firm on Water Trigger
August 21, 2014
Tony Windsor has this morning released a statement calling for crossbench Senators in the Federal Parliament to hold firm on the water trigger. Mr Windsor introduced the trigger to require Federal assessment of the water impacts of large scale coal and coal seam gas...
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