Media Releases

FOI shows fracking company let off with warning despite “culpable” breach that risked groundwater

September 25, 2025

A new document obtained through freedom of information laws reveals Empire Energy likely knew it was legally required to isolate two groundwater sources from each other and may have benefited from not doing so when it drilled and fracked its Carpentaria 3H in the NT's Beetaloo...

Lock the Gate Alliance response to SA Premier Peter Malinauskas’ comments on Santos’ proposed Narrabri Coal Seam Gas (CSG) Project:

September 24, 2025

In response to comments reported in The Australian today that South Australian Premier wants the Narrabri Gas Project in NSW fast-tracked. Please attribute to Lock the Gate Alliance National Coordinator Carmel Flint: “We’d respectfully suggest that the South Australian Premier stay in his lane, because...

Glencore and Yancoal want to build NSW’s biggest ever coal project as Albanese prepares to announce 2035 emissions targets

September 18, 2025

Glencore and Yancoal’s reworked expansion of their Hunter Valley Coal Operations mine would still be the largest ever in NSW’s history.

Public kept in dark as BHP polluted sensitive QLD environment for up to 15 years

September 15, 2025

Mining giant BHP likely knew it was releasing polluted water into environmentally sensitive areas adjacent to a major Central Queensland coal mine for more than a decade but did nothing until a routine Environment Department site inspection in 2022, documents show.

Cattle farmer fears the worst as Bowen Coking Coal goes bust, leaving giant mine mess on her land

September 14, 2025

The failings of Queensland’s broken mine rehabilitation laws have been laid bare amid fears Bowen Coking Coal, which recently entered liquidation, has abandoned an open cut coal mine on a Central Queensland cattle farmer's land.