Media Releases
Court Challenge Looms as Burke Backflips on Big Coal and Gas
February 11, 2013
The Gillard Government has continued its woeful record of capitulation to big coal and gas mining by today approving three highly contentious mining projects - two coal mines near Maules Creek in north-west NSW and a coal seam gas field near Gloucester. The Federal...
Read MoreCSG approvals process worse than Bjelke-Petersen
February 11, 2013
The approvals process for coal seam gas projects by the Queensland Coordinator-General in 2010 possibly breached the Environmental Protection Act and needs to be investigated by the Crime and Misconduct Commission.Lock the Gate Alliance president, Drew Hutton, said Right to Information documents showed State and Commonwealth...
Read MoreAGL suspends Camden expansion: time to suspend all coal seam gas operations
February 08, 2013
Today's announcement by AGL that it is suspending its planned expansion at Camden, west of Sydney should now be followed by a decision by the O'Farrell government to suspend all coal seam gas operations around the state until the New South Wales community has...
Read MoreDrew Hutton Arrested At CSG Blockade
February 07, 2013
Lock the Gate Alliance President Drew Hutton has been arrested at the Doubtful Creek community blockade against coal seam gas, near Kyogle in the Northern Rivers. In a show of peaceful solidarity with the people of the Northern Rivers, Hutton sat in the middle...
Read MoreWise Decision to Defer Federal Mine Approvals Leaves NSW Government Exposed
February 07, 2013
Lock the Gate Alliance says a decision by the Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, to delay a decision on two coal mines near Boggabri in north-west NSW, including the Whitehaven Maules Creek Coal Project, has exposed gaping holes in the NSW planning process which...
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