MEDIA RELEASE - 18 April 2013 Country Greens MP, Jeremy Buckingham responded to a press release by Nationals MP Kevin Humphries, accusing Mr Humphries of lazy politics and misleading the media and community.  “Everyone knows the National Party is too close to the mining and gas industry with senior Nationals like John Anderson and Mark Vaile [...]

Petition- Ban all CSG prospecting and mining in drinking water catchment areas

MEDIA RELEASE - 10 April 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham welcomed industry acknowledgement that LNG exports from Queensland were the cause of future gas squeezes and price hikes, but said a domestic reservation of conventional gas resources from Moomba and Bass Straight was the answer, not drilling for coal seam gas [...]

MEDIA RELEASE 9 April 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham said today that key resource and energy ministers, as well as representatives of the gas industry, must address the question of an East Coast domestic gas reservation policy at the ‘Australian Domestic Gas Outlook 2013’ conference held in Sydney 10 – 12 [...]

MEDIA ALERT 9 April 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham will take on the Member for Kiama, Gareth Ward tonight at a community meeting on coal seam gas in Gerringong. “Gareth Ward’s government recently renewed the coal seam gas licence PEL 469, which covers from Wollongong to Sussex Inlet and inland to [...]

MEDIA RELEASE - 2 April 2013 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today said the suspension of coal seam gas operations in NSW by Dart Energy and Planet Gas showed that gaining a social licence is important for business and cannot be bypassed. Dart Energy announced to the ASX that they would suspend their NSW operations [...]