Media Releases

AGL misled public over political donations for Gloucester gas project

August 11, 2014

AGL Energy made $98,800 in political donations while it's application to develop a gasfield at Gloucester was being assessed by the NSW Government, yet only around half of that amount was declared during the public assessment of the project, investigations by Groundswell Gloucester show.

Peaceful action launched to protect Gloucester Valley from coal seam gas

August 07, 2014

Around thirty farmers and residents of villages in the Gloucester Valley are this morning holding a protest vigil at the site where AGL plans to frack coal seam gas wells on farmland in the area, vowing to begin a sustained campaign of peaceful direct...

Mining Ministers “Tara” moment at Gloucester

August 06, 2014

Media Release 6.8.2014 Mining and Energy Minister Anthony Roberts has announced the renewal of PEL 285 at Gloucester late today. The announcement confirms the use of drilling and fracking by AGL within 2 kms of residents homes after the State Environment Planning Policy was...

New Warkworth mine expansion should be quashed

August 06, 2014

Bulga Milbrodale Progress Association and the Lock The Gate Alliance have called on NSW Planning Minister Prue Goward to cancel the assessment process for a proposed expansion of Rio Tinto's Warkworth coal mine in the Hunter Valley.

Call for halt on any further CSG approvals following Tara buy outs

August 04, 2014

The Lock the Gate Alliance has called for a comprehensive investigation into the health impacts of coal seam gas after it was revealed that QGC had been forced to buy out residents in Tara whose health had suffered as a result of living in...