Media Releases
Plibersek’s approval of Santos’ Arcadia Valley gasfield doesn’t pass the climate sniff test
February 22, 2023
Lock the Gate Alliance has accused Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek of failing to walk the talk on climate action after her department approved a Santos-owned project that will lead to the drilling of 116 gaswells in the beautiful Arcadia Valley in Central QLD...
Read MoreSpineless Palaszczuk Government approves drilling of 55 Shell and PetroChina gaswells at Linc contamination site
February 17, 2023
Lock the Gate Alliance has labelled the Queensland Environment Department and the Palaszczuk Government “utterly spineless” following the approval of Shell and PetroChina’s (Arrow Energy) application to drill 55 coal seam gas wells immediately surrounding the Linc Energy contamination site.
Read MoreOrigin’s Lake Eyre exit another opportunity for Palaszczuk Government to act on election promise and ban new gas on floodplains
February 17, 2023
Origin Energy’s incremental exit from its Lake Eyre Basin fracking tenements shows the Queensland Palaszczuk Government is out of step with even the most gas-thirsty of fracking companies.
Read MoreFour farming families take on the might of Shell and PetroChina’s coal seam gas plans for QLD’s foodbowl
February 14, 2023
Queensland farmers fighting a Shell and PetroChina (Arrow Energy) plan to drill for coal seam gas on their properties - classified as some of the state’s best agricultural land - say the project would pose a “risk of significant and largely irreversible impacts”.
Read MoreKimberley coast threat from new LNG proposal following Origin exit
February 13, 2023
Buru Energy's plans to develop a new fossil gas project in the Kimberley, revealed after it acquired Origin Energy's share of the companies’ Kimberley joint venture today, harks back to the bad old days of Woodside and Colin Barnett's James Price Point Proposal.
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