Media Releases
“Barely a slap on the wrist” for coal mining company that stole water at height of drought
July 05, 2023
A $54,000 "compensation" payment from Idemitsu for water theft at its Boggabri Coal Mine during the peak of the worst drought in living memory falls far short of community expectations, and will not deter other companies from committing similar offences, says Lock the Gate...
Read MorePalaszczuk Government defies local community and council, gives gasfield go ahead
July 03, 2023
The Palaszczuk Government’s refusal to back down over its deeply unpopular approval of Blue Energy’s Central Queensland gasfield shows it cares neither for communities, nor climate.
Read MorePlibersek’s Ensham thermal coal mine approval adds 100 million tonnes of CO2-e to atmosphere
July 03, 2023
Lock the Gate Alliance condemns Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s approval of the Ensham coal mine expansion near Emerald in Central Queensland.
Read MorePalaszczuk Government prioritises coal over koalas, hope now rests with Plibersek
June 28, 2023
A Central Queensland community group is calling on Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to stop a new coal project that would destroy more than a 1000 hectares of koala habitat and 70 hectares of greater glider habitat.
Read MoreHopes high as huge fracking tenements disappear from Channel Country floodplains
June 16, 2023
More than 200,000 hectares of petroleum production licences that covered the floodplains of the Lake Eyre Basin in Far Western Queensland have vanished, and groups opposed to fracking in the region are hopeful it’s a sign of things to come.
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