Media Releases
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...
Read MoreQueensland 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...
Read MoreFederally-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...
Read MoreAGL 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.
Read MorePeaceful 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...
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