MEDIA RELEASE - 29 March 2012 The Greens NSW MPs Jeremy Buckingham and Cate Faehrmann have today condemned Liberal Legislative Council member Charlie Lynn for a motion he has put before the Upper House which accuses unnamed sections to the ‘multicultural community’ as seeking to use ANZAC day to be divisive. Point 4 of Lynn’s [...]

MEDIA RELEASE 29 March 2012 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham said new Queensland Premier Campbell Newman was putting Barry O’Farrell to shame when it came to action on the clash between mining and agriculture.  Campbell Newman’s has made a decision to stop the coal mine and coal-to-liquid plant at Felton, and the [...]

MEDIA RELEASE 23 March 2012 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today condemned the Planning Assessment Commission’s (PAC) decision to allow Nathan Tinkler’s Maules Creek coal mine to the next stage of assessment, saying it will decimate the important ecology of the Leards State Forest and makes a mockery of the O’Farrell Government’s [...]

MEDIA RELEASE 15 March 2012 The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham claimed today that the National Party had failed country NSW by voting against the Coal Seam Gas Moratorium Bill, after the vote on the bill in the NSW Upper House failed 16 ayes, 19 noes. The Coal Seam Gas Moratorium bill would [...]

The Greens NSW spokesperson on coal seam gas Jeremy Buckingham has condemned the NSW Liberal and National Government for ignoring the pleas of the Northern Rivers community to protect their environment and economy from the impact of Coal Seam Gas exploration and production. Mr Buckingham’s attempt to incorporate a letter from the Northern Rivers community [...]

Greens MP and mining spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham has labelled the Government’s Strategic Regional Land Use Policy announcement a breach of their promise to the communities of regional NSW. “The National Party has either deliberately abandoned the interests of farmers to the big mining corporations, or else they’ve been comprehensively rolled by the Liberal Party,” Mr [...]

John Williams has resurrected in his opinion piece: Mining gas in NSW is viable if it’s controlled (SMH Opinion, 1 March 2012) the out-dated argument that all that is needed to make coal seam gas workable in NSW is a technological fix to deal with water impacts and fugitive gas emissions. There are similarities in this [...]