Media Releases
Lake Eyre Basin gas protections a win for all Queenslanders
December 22, 2023
Lock the Gate Alliance warmly welcomes the QLD Miles Government’s announcement today that it will protect the Channel Country rivers and floodplains of the Lake Eyre Basin from new oil and gas.
Read MoreGlencore refuses to defuse billion tonne climate bomb planned for Hunter Valley
December 20, 2023
Glencore and Yancoal are both unwilling and unable to seriously mitigate large amounts of direct greenhouse pollution from a huge open cut coal mine expansion planned for the Hunter Valley, according to a recent response from the joint venture to the NSW Government.
Read MoreMiles Government's greenhouse reduction targets a great start, but coal and gas rejections must follow
December 15, 2023
Lock the Gate Alliance welcomes the QLD Miles Government’s new and improved greenhouse pollution reduction targets of 75% by 2035 announced today.
Read MoreFederal law reforms must not leave decision makers blind to climate harm from fossil fuel development
December 14, 2023
Major reforms by the federal government seeking to halt Australia’s biodiversity crisis will be fatally compromised if they fail to put climate change front and centre of decisions about development, says Lock the Gate Alliance.
Read MoreNew draft laws abandon QLD farmers to coal seam gas subsidence
December 14, 2023
A Queensland Government draft plan to abandon responsibility for farmland that is sinking due to coal seam gas induced subsidence must go back to the drawing board, say farmers and community groups
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