Media Releases
Water, farmland, and koalas at risk as Jemena progresses fracked gas pipeline plans
April 08, 2021
Lock the Gate Alliance and Galilee Basin landholders are alarmed after multinational gas pipeline company Jemena lodged an application for a pipeline that would tear up hundreds of kilometres of land and threaten waterways if built.
Read MoreFifty days and still no response from Gunner Government to fracking risks identified in stygofauna report
April 07, 2021
The Protect Country Alliance is calling on the NT Gunner Government to take immediate action to better protect the Beetaloo’s underground aquifers from the fracking industry.
Read MoreMorrison Government's National Gas Infrastructure Plan a hidden taxpayer funded trough for gas companies
March 31, 2021
Lock the Gate Alliance is alarmed at the secrecy behind the development of Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s National Gas Infrastructure Plan (NGIP), as submissions close today on a scanty submission process which appeared more like a call for gas companies to put forward projects they wanted...
Read MoreNSW can no longer ignore Hunter coal mines’ cumulative impact
March 31, 2021
The NSW Government’s Planning Department and its processes must be overhauled in light of its failure to account for cumulative health, social, and environmental impacts of new coal mining projects in the Hunter Valley, according to Lock the Gate Alliance.
Read MoreAEMO gas report shows no need for Morrison’s “gas-fired recovery”
March 29, 2021
The Australian Energy Market Operator’s annual assessment of the east coast gas market, released today, shows there is no need for the Morrison Government to waste Australian taxpayer dollars opening up new and polluting gasfields across the country.
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