Lock the Gate Alliance has welcomed news the destructive Shenhua Watermark coal mine is looking increasingly uncertain, but has warned the NSW Government not to stuff up negotiations with the company and give it any more special deals like it did four years ago.

Farmers are outraged over an amendment by Arrow Energy which, if approved, would allow the multinational company to drill hundreds of additional gas wells through land and groundwater potentially contaminated by the Linc Energy underground coal gasification disaster.

Gas company and Santos joint venture partner Carbon Minerals is progressing plans to raise its zombie petroleum licenses from the dead on the Liverpool Plains, a national food bowl, despite calls by State Government MPs for expired tenements to be permanently slain.

Documents obtained recently under Government Information Public Access (GIPA) laws reveal the NSW Government was unable to complete a full and transparent investigation into whether it was appropriate for a private multinational company to purchase majority ownership of an expired petroleum license in the Upper Hunter, but the sale went ahead anyway.

Australian taxpayers should be outraged the Morrison Government has announced it will yet again subsidise the polluting and expensive fracking industry using public funds with a “gas roads” package for the NT worth $217M.