Media Releases
First shots fired in NSW Lock the Gate campaign
July 18, 2011
A meeting of 85 farmers at the little town on Gurley in northern NSW earlier this week saw the beginning of the first direct confrontation between coal seam gas companies and farmers in New South Wales. The company Planet Gas has, in the last...
Read MoreClaytons moratorium means nothing as Planet Gas serves notice on Bellata farmers
July 10, 2011
On Friday farmers in the Bellata area, near Moree in north-west NSW, received a letter in the mail from coal seam gas companies Leichardt Resources and Planet Gas, formally serving notice that they would be seeking an access agreement to drill for coal seam...
Read MoreMajor parties need to show common sense in coal and coal seam gas debate
June 18, 2011
The Lock the Gate Alliance has unveiled its program to resolve the conflict in Queensland over the social and environmental impacts of coal and coal seam gas mining and called on Labor and the LNP to adopt policies to address these. Lock the Gate...
Read MoreStrategic Cropping Land is smoke and mirrors
May 31, 2011
Today's announcement of the state government's strategic cropping land legislation has no good news for most farmers. The legislation has all the weaknesses of previous discussion papers. These include: failure to include coal seam gas a an activity prohibited on cropping land criteria like...
Read MoreMajor gas blow-out at Dalby
May 23, 2011
There has been a major gas blowout at Arrow Energy's Daandine field 25 kilometres west of Dalby, The incident occurred yesterday at about 9 a.m. but was not reported to the landowner until 2 p.m. The gas and water spewed 100 metres into the...
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