Media Releases
Mining donations “as insidious as tobacco, gambling and developers”
September 24, 2014
The Lock the Gate Alliance has used a submission to the Premier’s Panel of Experts on political donations reform to call for an immediate prohibition on donations by mining companies and their public relations and lobbying firms.
Read MoreRural communities braced for MacFarlane's quarry economy
September 23, 2014
The Lock the Gate Alliance has described today’s Energy Green Paper as a “blueprint for a quarry economy,” criticising the Government for failing to outline a vision that will prevent Australia repeating government energy policy failures in the recent past.
Read MoreVoices from the Gaslands tell a different story to the gas industry’s spin
September 18, 2014
The Lock the Gate Alliance is today launching a new series of short videos that tell the stories of people whose lives and businesses have been damaged by the coal seam gas industry in Queensland.
Read MoreDefiant communities declare themselves coal mine and gasfield free despite Cripps amendment
September 14, 2014
Eleven more Queensland communities declared themselves coal mining and gasfield free at an historic public ceremony near Gympie today. The communities are defying the State Government’s draconian laws extinguishing our rights to object to mining proposals, passed secretly last week, despite the LNP’s Andrew...
Read MoreMinister misleads the parliament and the people with late night amendments to mines bill
September 12, 2014
In an 11th hour move the Queensland Government has silenced objections to mining projects across the state giving open slather to Indian coal company Adani to develop the Galilee Basin into one of the largest coal precincts in the world.
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