The Australian Government has announced plans to hand over millions of taxpayer dollars to the gas industry for big new fracking gas pipelines and gas infrastructure.

Our Federal decision makers need to hear from you. We can’t have them getting all their advice from the gas industry and miss out on hearing your voice.

CALL OR EMAIL YOUR MP NOW

Go to the Parliament of Australia website – enter your postcode to find your MP’s contact details.

WHAT YOU CAN SAY:

- I’m concerned the Federal Government giving taxpayer money to the gas industry.

- We should NOT be paying for gas industry pipelines, infrastructure or buying gas directly from new fracked gasfields. The Queensland Hunter Gas Pipeline, NT Beetaloo Fracking Pipeline and Bowen Basin pipeline would put farmers and Traditional Owners at risk. 

- Gas is a bad investment. Our money mustn’t prop up the gas industry, putting farmers and regional communities in the firing line for new gasfields and fracking. 

- There are more jobs and opportunities supporting manufacturing and agribusiness to electrify and use renewable energy. We can and must switch away from gas.

- Help homes and small business install renewables, get energy efficient, and invest in storage. We can’t support gas and fracking gasfields and longer.

Tips for calling:

• Call the Electorate Office number 
• Be polite, friendly and calm. You will probably speak to a staffer, ask them to take down your message.
• Introduce yourself, mention you live in your MP's electorate and tell them your concerns about gas and support for renewables.

CALL & EMAIL TREASURER JOSH FRYDENBURG TOO       PH: (02) 6277 7340          EMAIL

Thanks for reminding our government to represent all of our interests, not just the gas industry. 

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We know that we need renewables NOT gas for a sustainable, healthy future for our communities, our environment AND our economy. 

We can't let our government keep propping up this destructive industry. It’s time we invested our money wisely on safe and sustainable industries, and towards a clean energy future.

Tell the federal government that we want a renewables-led recovery!

Protect Australia's land and water from reckless coal and gas mining!

Your financial contribution will go directly to the front line of communities working hard to protect this amazing country.

 

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We are not third party campaigners.

Origin Energy are lining up to frack the Northern Territory this year, and in the firing line are some magical places, including recharge zones of Mataranka Hot Springs.

Traditional Owners have told us that Origin Energy has ignored their concerns about fracking and not properly laid out the risks involved.

We need to build a powerful movement of people willing to spread the word and take on Origin at every level, from their head offices to their board rooms.

In NSW right now, we're at a crucial cross-roads.  It's a stark choice - will we choose more damaging coal and gas mining, or will we choose clean food, clean air and clean energy?

We need members of parliament to know that we're demanding better choices for NSW.

Are you willing to meet your MP?

Let us know where you are, and give us your phone number, and we’ll give you a call to talk through the details.

Here’s the simple choice we’re asking them to make for New South Wales. Will they support our vision to:

1. Promote health and prosperity through agriculture and reliable clean energy
2. Protect communities, including Indigenous communities, and give them legal rights to object to mining
3. Protect important farmland, catchments and water resources from risky coal mining
4. Stop mining and exploration for unconventional gas (like CSG)

Will your local member make this choice for NSW’s future?

Make Coal Giants Pay for Mine Clean-Up

Our new report – Abandoned Mines in Queensland: Toxic Time-bomb or Employment Opportunity? – calls for big mining companies to cover the cost of rehabilitating the State’s abandoned mines and estimates that this would generate 6000 jobs in regional Queensland!

There are too many large abandoned mines, and the full cost of cleaning them up is too large and should not fall on taxpayers. If mines are levied to pay for the clean up, they can also create jobs in the process.

Why should we miss out on hundreds of schools and hospitals because we’re footing the bill for the mess left behind by irresponsible mining companies?

References:

• Dodging clean up costs Six tricks coal mining companies play (pdf)

• Hazelwood Mine Fire Inquiry Report (pdf)
• ACF Mine Rehab Stories
• Abandoned Mines in Queensland Report
• NSW Coal Pit Legacy
• Mine Rehab Closure Cost Report
• Rhetoric Vs Reality. Rehab performance snapshot

Will you join potato farmers in north west New South Wales, foodies in Brisbane, dairy farmers in Gippsland, Traditional Owners in the Gulf, wheat farmers in WA's breadbowl, cattlemen from the Territory, surfers from Sydney and even coal miners from the Hunter Valley in being part of the extraordinary movement to protect Australia's wide brown beauty, rich farmland, ancient culture and unique wildlife from damage by unconventional gas and coal mining?

Whoever you are, there's a place for you. Please join us!

Needed to persuade the staffer to take a message, had a good 5 minutes conversation and she promised to add my name to the list. She asked me where all these phone calls were coming from, I told her from the farming community, although I Live in a city, I support the farmers and care about the land, water and environment.