Clive Palmer’s Waratah Coal company has been condemned after it submitted an Environment Authority and Mining Lease application for the destructive Galilee Coal Project - previously called “China First”.

Local farmers from the Bylong Valley have launched a new TV advertisement calling for permanent protection from mining, following what they have described as an insulting campaign by the Minerals Council of NSW.

The ICAC’s Operation Eclipse, which is examining lobbying and influence in NSW, will today hear evidence about the undue negative influence of the mining industry.

Lock the Gate Alliance has slammed the NSW Government for allowing a five year extension for the lapsed decade-old approval of the Queensland-Hunter gas pipeline, saying farmers had faced uncertainty due to the planned project for long enough already.

The Gasfield Free South West Alliance has expressed deep concern at Bunbury Energy’s decision to begin aerial gravity surveys over the South West this week.