The reopening of a notorious coal mine in the Upper Hunter Valley will put the wellbeing of local communities at risk and is an unacceptable incursion into productive farmland, according to Lock the Gate Alliance.

Landholders in north west NSW are living with the uncertainty of multiple expired, but not extinguished, coal seam gas licences sitting over their properties.

Lock the Gate Alliance have called on the Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Anthony Lynham, to wait until a decision has been made in the Court of appeal before granting a mining lease for the Acland Stage 3 coal expansion on the Darling Downs.

An apparent decision by NSW Labor to leave the coal mining industry out of its polluter pays policy smacks of influence by fossil fuel lobbyists, according to Lock the Gate Alliance.

Multinational mining giant Adani may have breached Australian consumer and corporation laws in its recent advertising blitz, according to complaint letters submitted to the ACCC and ASIC by Lock the Gate Alliance.