A statement by Mines Minister Anthony Lynham completely misses the point of community concerns over a proposed coal mine in Bundaberg, and is an insult to farmers whose livelihoods are at risk, should the project be approved in the future.

Landholder groups have condemned the Gunner Government’s proposal to allow oil and gas lobby group APPEA to assist in drafting the laws and regulations governing gas company land access at a committee hearing today. 

The massive swing against the ruling Labor Party in the Johnston by-election is proof constituents are unhappy with the government’s pro-fracking agenda, according to Protect Country Alliance.

North west NSW landholders who uncovered a mass pollution event downstream from Whitehaven’s Maules Creek coal mine have been vindicated after the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed the pollution and issued a clean up notice to the company.

Lock the Gate Alliance is calling for an immediate halt to the assessment of the Narrabri CSG project after a NSW Parliamentary Committee described the industry as “uninsurable” and found the Berejiklian Government had failed to implement important Chief Scientist recommendations for the dangerous industry.