Media Releases

Lock the Gate president to visit Glenugie blockade site

December 10, 2012

Lock the Gate Alliance president, Drew Hutton, will be visiting and participating in the blockade at Glenugie, near Grafton, with coal seam gas company Metgasco about to force its way onto a property. About 100 local residents and their supporters from across the region...

Miners take farmers to court in Southern Highlands coal bid

November 29, 2012

Mining company Hume Coal, partly owned by Korean company POSCO, will be in the Land and Environment Court today attempting to use legal force to barge its way onto rich farmland to explore for coal in the Southern Highlands of NSW. Lock The Gate...

Lock the Gate calls on Newman government to heed warning by Hopper

November 26, 2012

The Lock the Gate Alliance believes the frustration felt by resigned Liberal National Party MP, Ray Hopper, over the Newman government’s policies on coal seam gas are only the tip of the iceberg for the rural community. Lock the Gate president, Drew Hutton, said,...

Unprecedented attack on independent science by Federal Resources Minister

November 21, 2012

The Lock The Gate Alliance has called on the Federal Resources Minister, Martin Ferguson, to resign after he attacked a new study on fugitive emissions from coal seam gas mining without having read it. The Sydney Morning Herald reported comments by the Minister to an energy conference in...

Environment Department must stand up to QGC on coal seam gas pipeline construction near Miles

November 16, 2012

Lock The Gate Alliance and landholders in the Columboola Creek area south-east of Miles are calling on Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (DEHP) Executive Director, Andrew Connors to stand by his recent public assurances that Queensland Gas Company (QGC) pipeline contractors would cross...