Media Releases
Murray Darling Basin Authority to open floodgates for mining
October 19, 2011
The Lock The Gate Alliance claims that the Murray Darling Basin will be another casualty as Precautionary Principle is thrown to the wind in the resources boom. Lock the Gate President, Drew Hutton says pressure from States addicted to mining royalties is most likely...
Read MoreCoal seam gas is very similar to shale gas – despite industry claims
September 21, 2011
The president of the Lock the Gate Alliance, Drew Hutton, today apologised for accidentally using the wrong terminology in the Alliance's submissions to the NSW upper house inquiry and the federal Senate inquiry into coal seam gas but re-affirmed his belief that the coal...
Read MoreComplaint lodged against phoney Coal Seam Gas advertising campaign
September 16, 2011
Arguments that coal seam gas mining can't co-exist with agriculture and that it represents a grave threat to the future of rural Australia are at the heart of a complaint lodged today by Lock The Gate. The Alliance has lodged a complaint with the...
Read MoreLock the Gate president warns against CSG regulator confusing industry enforcement with facilitation
September 15, 2011
The main organisation campaigning for protection of rural Queensland from the potential impacts of coal seam gas mining has warned the Queensland government its unit enforcing regulation of the newly-emerging coal seam gas industry risks confusing its enforcement role with an industry facilitation one....
Read MoreState government water bill undermines regulation of coal seam gas
September 06, 2011
The lock the Gate Alliance believes the seemingly innocuous amendments to the Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008, currently being introduced into the state parliament are designed to further entrench the ineffective and inadequate policyframework the government is building around the CSG industry. President of...
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