Skip navigation

Stop the expansion of the Acland coal mine

For over ten years local landholders have been fighting the expansion of the Acland coal mine near Oakey, just two hours from Brisbane. 

The Acland Stage 3 project will destroy prime farmland, drain groundwater, impact the health and wellbeing of neighbouring families and fuel climate change and the Queensland government is deciding right now whether to approve it.

The expanded coal mine will mean:

  • Each year: 4000 noisy, dusty train movements through the suburbs of Toowoomba, Brisbane and Ipswich
  • Each day:1.3 million litres of precious water drained from the landscape
  • Over the life of the mine: 170 million tonnes of CO2 in the atmosphere, fuelling dangerous climate change

Despite all this New Hope has a loophole that means it pays almost no royalties.

 

The Acland mine has been closed for six months already, and the local economy continues to thrive without it. But coal company New Hope is pushing the Queensland government for approval to re-open the mine.

Will you tell the Queensland government not to approve the Acland expansion?

Who's signing
Clayton Lalor
Dorothy Barraclough
Graham Witham
Glenn Thompson
Colin Campbell
Jill Langton
Claire Leimbach
Linda Priest
Kelly Baumann
Danielle Joyner
Angela Gould
Norma Leslie
Kate Jackson
Ian Pershouse
Ross Giles
Mark Olsen
Lulu Extonpery
Bernadette Rye
Leonie Loch
Di Perkins
Robyn Young
Susan Rollbusch
Barry Brown
Heather Waring
Vivienne Ruffles
Kym Avalon
Sandra Graham
Cassie Bentley
Lesley Rutt
Dian Clarke

1,500 Signatures

1,087 Signatures

Will you sign?


Showing 30 reactions

  • Clayton Lalor
    signed 2022-07-26 20:57:48 +1000
  • Dorothy Barraclough
    signed 2022-07-26 20:28:19 +1000
  • Graham Witham
    signed via 2022-07-26 20:22:08 +1000
  • Glenn Thompson
    signed 2022-07-26 19:56:56 +1000
  • Colin Campbell
    signed 2022-07-26 19:10:30 +1000
  • Jill Langton
    signed 2022-07-26 18:47:59 +1000
  • Claire Leimbach
    signed 2022-07-26 18:45:52 +1000
  • Linda Priest
    signed 2022-07-26 18:36:17 +1000
  • Kelly Baumann
    signed 2022-07-26 17:48:53 +1000
  • Danielle Joyner
    signed 2022-07-26 17:41:30 +1000
  • Angela Gould
    signed 2022-07-26 17:08:06 +1000
  • Norma Leslie
    signed 2022-07-26 16:51:22 +1000
  • Kate Jackson
    signed 2022-07-26 16:45:18 +1000
  • Ian Pershouse
    signed 2022-07-26 16:30:34 +1000
  • Ross Giles
    signed 2022-07-26 16:19:29 +1000
  • Mark Olsen
    signed 2022-07-26 16:11:49 +1000
  • Lulu Extonpery
    signed 2022-07-26 16:01:07 +1000
  • Bernadette Rye
    signed 2022-07-26 15:57:22 +1000
  • Leonie Loch
    signed 2022-07-26 15:43:24 +1000
  • Di Perkins
    signed 2022-07-26 15:41:13 +1000
  • Robyn Young
    signed 2022-07-26 15:17:47 +1000
  • Susan Rollbusch
    signed 2022-07-26 15:10:32 +1000
  • Barry Brown
    signed 2022-07-26 15:04:53 +1000
  • Heather Waring
    signed 2022-07-26 15:00:12 +1000
  • Vivienne Ruffles
    signed 2022-07-26 14:57:47 +1000
  • Kym Avalon
    signed 2022-07-26 14:52:23 +1000
  • Sandra Graham
    signed 2022-07-26 14:50:56 +1000
  • Cassie Bentley
    signed 2022-07-26 14:50:54 +1000
  • Lesley Rutt
    signed 2022-07-26 14:49:05 +1000
  • Dian Clarke
    signed 2022-07-26 14:45:08 +1000