Lock the Gate has obtained documents under Right to Information laws in Queensland which reveal that Adani received a special deal on access to 12.5 billion litres of river water compared to other water users, and environmental assessments of it were weak.

Mining and fracking companies could be given an exemption allowing them to pollute water across entire exploration permit areas in the Northern Territory if draft changes to the NT Water Act are not rewritten to remove significant loopholes.

Lock the Gate says a decision by the Federal Environment Minister yesterday to allow Adani to take 12.5 billion litres of river water without any assessment of its water impacts is an appalling and dangerous move at a time of severe drought.

The Minister has made a decision not to apply the water trigger under federal environment laws to Adani’s North Galilee Water Scheme project, despite it planning to take 12.5 billion litres of water each year and pipe it 110km to run the Carmichael coal mine.

The Rural Fire Service and the Environmental Protection Agency have raised serious concerns about Santos’ controversial coal seam gasfield at Narrabri, validating community fears that the gasfield will bring two of the worst scourges of the bush - salt and fire.

Traditional Owners are demanding the South Australian Premier put an end to underground coal gasification (UCG), which threatens to put sacred sites of the Flinders Rangers at risk of toxic contamination

The Traditional Owners have the support of scientists and 13 community groups, including Doctors for the Environment Australia and Lock the Gate Alliance, who have signed on to a letter from the Traditional Owners to the Premier.

The Anggumathahna Camp Law Mob Elders, Aroona Aboriginal Council, and the Adnyamathanha Yura Language and Heritage Association have written to the Premier, following the state government’s approval of UCG at Leigh Creek.