Lock the Gate Alliance welcomes today’s Federal Court ruling that the Morrison Government should have applied the “water trigger” to Adani’s North Galilee Water Scheme.

Lock the Gate Alliance has welcomed the Deputy Premier’s announcement yesterday that the NSW Government will establish a statutory Hunter Expert Panel of unions, community groups, local government and local business to oversee spending on diversification of the region’s economy.

The Morrison Government’s decision to waste $600 million on a polluting gas fired power plant at Kurri Kurri will harm water, farmland, and regional communities, and ignores the International Energy Agency’s latest alarming advice about how to avoid climate chaos.

Protect Country Alliance is deeply concerned Territorians are being kept in the dark after Empire Energy lodged plans for the NT’s largest ever fracking program, but no notification went out from the Gunner Government’s purpose built “Have Your Say” website.

Lock the Gate Alliance fears Snowy Hydro’s decision to lodge an Environmental Impact Statement for its polluting Kurri Kurri gas fired power station today will embolden gas companies to expand and build new destructive gasfields and pipelines, threatening farmers’ land and water.