Media Releases

Gloucester residents and supporters stop work on controversial AGL fracking project

August 16, 2014

Thirty residents of the Gloucester Valley and their supporters have set up a peaceful blockade this morning at the site of AGL's planned coal seam gas fracking project, risking arrest to stop preliminary earthworks on the site.

Bold new "People's Bill" challenges Queensland's mining and politics problem

August 14, 2014

In an historic move members of the community today took control of the Queensland Upper House to table a “People’s Bill” aimed at restoring common rights eroded by the mining industry.

Call for freeze on Gloucester Gas Project as auditors investigate AGL’s political donations

August 14, 2014

13th August 2014Groundswell Gloucester and the Lock The Gate Alliance are calling for all work on AGL’s Gloucester gas project to cease immediately pending a full inquiry into the payment by the company of more than $100,000 in political donations while the project was...

Queensland Government ignores graziers and farmers to push coal rail nightmare

August 14, 2014

The Lock the Gate Alliance says the Queensland Government is sacrificing productive farmland, precious water and its regional credentials by approving a fourth major coal rail line across Central Queensland floodplains to help foreign coal companies transport Galilee Basin coal to port, despite ample...

Federally-funded body demands anti-mining photos be removed

August 12, 2014

A Federal Government-funded body has demanded photographs of people holding anti-mining signs be taken down from a council website and not be used for other purposes. The International Mining for Development Centre (IM4DC) demanded an Ipswich councillor remove the “inappropriate” photos and, in a...