Media Releases
NT Government fracking land release is bigger than Belgium and a climate bomb
June 16, 2021
The NT Gunner Government’s decision to sacrifice an area of land bigger than Belgium to the fracking industry is stupid at a time when the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is so great, according to Protect Country Alliance.
Read MoreKeith Pitt’s gas and oil basin “release” full of hot air
June 16, 2021
Resource Minister Keith Pitt’s enthusiasm to sacrifice sustainable outback agricultural enterprises and the last free flowing desert rivers in the world to fracking might win support from the extraction industry, but is utterly removed from reality, according to Lock the Gate Alliance.
Read MoreSubmissions show Morrison’s Kurri Kurri gas plant is almost universally opposed
June 16, 2021
Only two out of more than 250 submissions in response to the Morrison Government’s Kurri Kurri gas fired power plant supported the project, evidence Lock the Gate says shows there is near universal opposition to the polluting and uneconomic gas-fired flop.
Read MoreQueensland Government must punish New Hope for crimes visible from satellite
June 15, 2021
Darling Downs farmers and Lock the Gate Alliance are calling on the Queensland Palaszczuk Government to throw the book at New Acland Coal amid revelations the Environment Department is still investigating the company for alleged illegal mining.
Read MoreBum breathers at risk: Santos must abandon shocking plans to dump CSG waste on critically endangered turtles
June 15, 2021
Lock the Gate Alliance and Central Queensland locals are alarmed after Santos lodged a plan to dump untreated coal seam gas (CSG) water in the upper reaches of the Dawson River, near platypus and critically endangered White Throated Snapping Turtle habitat.
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