Media Releases
Environmentalists call for dredging halt, independent testing in Gladstone harbour
November 07, 2011
The causes of the apparent ecosystem collapse in Gladstone harbour can only be satisfactorily addressed by a halt to the dredging of the harbour and a genuinely independent testing regime. Gladstone harbour borders the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage area and Curtis Island, on...
Read MoreNationals 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...
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