Media Releases
Mid West Farmers Call on Nationals to Stand Up for Veto
May 09, 2016
Farmers from across the Mid West are calling on the National Party to support their right of veto over oil and gas exploration after Nationals MP Shane Love came out in support of the veto campaign. Lock the Gate WA coordinator Boudicca Cerese said...
Read MoreCouncillors told gas company won't tolerate locked gates
April 20, 2016
The rights of farmers and other landholders across the Southwest look likely to be disregarded by a company seeking to access land between Bunbury & Busselton. Carly Stone, spokesperson for the online residential group "Gas Free Southwest WA" said the company had briefed local...
Read MoreMid West Farmers take their fracking concerns to State Parliament
April 06, 2016
A delegation of farmers from the Mid West will be knocking on the doors of MPs in state parliament today demanding the right to protect their own land and water from fracking. The farmers from Irwin and Dandaragan have sought urgent talks with National,...
Read MorePrimary school kids targeted in pro-fracking propaganda campaign
April 05, 2016
The Lock the Gate Alliance has slammed an “educational supplement” distributed to primary schools across WA today as blatant propaganda for the fracking industry. The Ed supplement published in today’s West Australian newspaper and used widely in schools makes misleading claims about fracking including...
Read MoreWA Govt shows cavalier attitude to fracking with watering down of already weak recommendations
March 17, 2016
MARCH 17, 2106: The Lock the Gate Alliance has labeled the state government’s response to a parliamentary inquiry into fracking in WA as “an attempt to water down already inadequate and weak recommendations.” Western Australian coordinator for Lock the Gate Boudicca Cerese said the...
Read MoreMassive payout in US fracking company water contamination case a sobering reminder for WA's Mid West
March 11, 2016
MARCH 11, 2016: The Frack Free Mid West Gascoyne Alliance says a US federal court order for a fracking company to pay $US4.5M to two couples for contaminating their drinking water is a sobering reminder of the dangers fracking poses to water and health.
Read MoreFears for Mid West groundwater after reports of gas company polluting aquifer in Qld
February 10, 2016
A company currently involved in gas exploration and testing in WA’s Mid West has been caught out covering up oil pollution of groundwater aquifers in Queensland. Executives at Origin, a company which owns a half share of the Waitsia gas field and is active...
Read MoreWA communities say AGL withdrawal in NSW should herald pullout of WA frackers
February 05, 2016
FEBRUARY 5, 2016: Communities across the Mid West and Gascoyne regions of WA have welcomed moves by gas giant AGL to pull out of unconventional gas mining in NSW and Queensland. Spokesperson for the Frack Free Mid West Gascoyne Alliance Jo Franklin said the...
Read MoreREGIONAL WA DEMANDS THE RIGHT TO SAY ‘NO’ TO MINING
November 30, 2015
NOVEMBER 30, 2015: Farmers and landholders across the Mid West and Gascoyne regions of WA are calling on Federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg and state ministers to give them the right to say ‘no’ to mining at the next meeting of the...
Read MoreParliamentary inquiry recommendations for fracking in WA mostly window dressing
November 17, 2015
NOVEMBER 17, 2015: The Frack Free Mid West Gascoyne Alliance has warned that the recommendations of the parliamentary inquiry into fracking in WA were little more than window dressing for an unsafe and unwanted industry. Spokesperson for the FFMWGA Jo Franklin said the long...
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