Media Releases
Nationals statement on coal seam gas fails the credibility test
November 07, 2011
Yesterday's framework statement on coal seam gas by the federal Nationals leader Warren Truss simply continues the party's practice of telling farmers they sympathise with their plight and they will be looked after but does little to address the real problems of the too-rapid...
Read MoreResearch into CSG must not become academic ‘snouts in the trough’
November 03, 2011
Research centres are lining up to get a piece of the pie in the form of research grants into coal seam gas but many of these are wholly or partially funded by the very industry they are supposed to be researching. This money could...
Read MoreLandowners Blockade Coal Seam Gas Project
October 27, 2011
Caroona Coal Action Group: State & Federal govts called on to intervene to protect Liverpool Plains aquifer systems Landowners from communities across the Liverpool Plains have been forced to take direct action against the mining giant Santos to stop it pushing ahead with ‘pilot...
Read MoreFederal Government attempts to spin its way past Gladstone harbour debacle
October 26, 2011
Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has put his name to possibly the most blatant piece of hypocrisy in the country by writing an introduction to an lift-out into Gladstone's local newspaper. The lift-out is entitled "Reef Guardians" and Mr Burke talks about all the...
Read MoreStrategic Cropping Land legislation won’t stop coal mines
October 26, 2011
The Lock the Gate Alliance says the ultimate worth of the worth of the Bligh government's strategic cropping land legislation being introduced into the parliament today will be measured by how many coal mines it stops from alienating good farm land. President of the...
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