Media Releases
Cook scones not the planet: Picnic protests to target Whitehaven Coal
October 26, 2021
Demonstrators will share scones baked using flour grown just 20kms south of the paddocks Whitehaven wants to carve up for coal as part of protest picnics to be held in Sydney and Gunnedah tomorrow (October 27) to coincide with the company’s Annual General Meeting....
Read MoreNational Party’s carbon bomb ready to detonate thanks to “net zero” agreement
October 26, 2021
Lock the Gate Alliance has labelled the Coalition’s net-zero emissions deal a farce after media reported the Inland Rail extension to Gladstone was a condition granted to the National Party - a move that is designed to open up a vast new thermal coal basin.
Read MoreBroken offsets system driving species to extinction: Lock the Gate Alliance
October 22, 2021
Threatened species across NSW face extinction if the state’s ineffective offset legislation is not scrapped and rewritten to better protect them, according to Lock the Gate Alliance.
Read MoreCarbon bomb for carbon deal: Inland rail must not be coal-laden bargaining chip in Coalition climate negotiations
October 22, 2021
Lock the Gate Alliance is warning against any net-zero carbon emissions deal the Coalition reaches that involves opening up a new, taxpayer subsidised coal basin via the heavily criticised Inland Rail project, that would turbo-charge climate change and hurt farmers.
Read MoreOutrage as NT Government approves Empire Energy fracking project
October 20, 2021
Protect Country Alliance condemns in the strongest terms possible the NT Gunner Government’s approval of the Empire Energy fracking project.
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